[Openstack-operators] [openstack-dev] [nova][vmware] Minimum VC version

Steve Gordon sgordon at redhat.com
Fri May 15 22:39:28 UTC 2015


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Smith" <dms at danplanet.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>,
> 
> > But 4.x was EOL over a year ago:
> > 
> > http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2039567
> 
> ...and was released in 2010.
> 
> We're supporting a minimum version of libvirt from 2014, so I think that
> dropping support for five-year-old EOL'd VMware is good. We don't test
> it, which means it's probably broken. I also feel like this is a thing
> we can do without a deprecation cycle, assuming there aren't a ton of
> users still using unsupported commercial software out there.
> 
> --Dan

The proposed patch also drops support for 5.0, which as I understand it is not EOL'd? The documentation appears to indicate that some functionality will not work with < 5.1, but it's not explicitly clear what that it is.

Thanks,

Steve



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