On 08/02/2012 10:50 PM, Kevin Kluge wrote:
So I think it's important to realize that the actual release is a
source release. That makes the question (at least in my mind) what
platforms will we build convenience binaries for, as I suspect anyone
who builds from source doesn't really care about our concepts of
'supported platforms'. The better question to define in my mind is
what versions of required libraries need to be there. (and perhaps
secondarily, will it work elsewhere - for instance the existing Ubuntu
10.04 KVM support doesn't include snapshot capabilities IIRC).
I agree with you. I just want to make it easier for users. If you say you need
at least libvirt X.X.X and Qemu X.X.X with kernel Y.Y.Y it could confuse
people.
If we say we support:
* Ubuntu 12.04
* CentOS 6.2 / 6.3
But also mention which libraries we require, we should be safe?
Yeah, exactly. Most CloudStack users will not build from source, and they
rationally expect some statement of Linux distro (for KVM) that is required.
They just need to know what ISOs they can boot the hypervisor host from and
expect CloudStack to manage the host.
For Ubuntu, I'd personally be fine with only supporting 12.04, but then we
should have a procedure that tells people running CS 3.0.2 with ubuntu 10.04
how to upgrade to CS 4.0 with Ubuntu 12.04 with minimal downtime. Same for
RHEL/CentOS at 6.2+.
Can we conclude this with:
Supported platforms for CloudStack 4.0 KVM HyperVisors:
- Ubuntu 12.04
- CentOS 6.2
- CentOS 6.3
- RHEL 6.2
- RHEL 6.3
If people want to run on a different platform, we require:
- libvirt 0.9.4
That is actually it, most of the heavy lifting is done by libvirt.
The upgrade process for Hypervisors:
1. Put in maintenance mode
2. Make sure all instances are migrated away
3. Upgrade the underlying Operating System
4. Upgrade CloudStack Agent
That should work.
Wido
