What are the benefits of upping the minimum libvirt ? We've got 3,200 hypervisors still running v6 with a plan to gradually migrate to 7 but this does take some time. We'll see with RDO this week as to how/if we can get something going with SCL on v6. Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Kris G. Lindgren [mailto:klindgren at godaddy.com] > Sent: 14 May 2015 21:59 > To: Matt Riedemann; openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] [nova] Can we bump > MIN_LIBVIRT_VERSION to 1.2.2 in Liberty? > > How would this impact someone running juno nova-compute on rhel 6 boxes? > Or installing the python2.7 from SCL and running kilo+ code on rhel6? > > For [3] it couldn't we get the exact same information from /proc/cpuinfo? > ____________________________________________ > > Kris Lindgren > Senior Linux Systems Engineer > GoDaddy, LLC. > > > > On 5/14/15, 1:23 PM, "Matt Riedemann" <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com> > wrote: > > >The minimum required version of libvirt in the driver is 0.9.11 still > >[1]. We've been gating against 1.2.2 in Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 since Juno. > > > >The libvirt distro support matrix is here: [2] > > > >Can we safely assume the people aren't going to be running Libvirt > >compute nodes on RHEL < 7.1 or Ubuntu Precise? > > > >Regarding RHEL, I think this is a safe bet because in Kilo nova dropped > >python 2.6 support and RHEL > 6 doesn't have py26 so you'd be in > >trouble running kilo+ nova on RHEL 6.x anyway. > > > >There are some workarounds in the code [3] I'd like to see removed by > >bumping the minimum required version. > > > >[1] > >http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/virt/libvirt/dri > >ver > >.py?id=2015.1.0#n335 > >[2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LibvirtDistroSupportMatrix > >[3] > >http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/virt/libvirt/hos > >t.p > >y?id=2015.1.0#n754 > > > >-- > > > >Thanks, > > > >Matt Riedemann > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >OpenStack-operators mailing list > >OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org > >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators