Maybe we can switch to Ubuntu 12.04?: VMware supports it: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/Ubuntu_12_04.html Xen/KVM supports it by default.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 11:51 AM > To: <cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org> > Subject: Re: IPtables deb in source repo > > Not knowing the effort involved, is it crazy to talk about an upgrade > of the system VM OS? > > - chip > > Sent from my iPhone. > > On Aug 3, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Kevin Kluge <kevin.kl...@citrix.com> wrote: > > >> > >> I believe it is already in Debian wheezy, so this is actually a > backport. > >> Debian backports kernel for Squeeze broke something else (will have > to dig it > >> up), so we couldn't use the backports kernel. > >> > >> What will break for folks is that: > >> - if they have a Ubuntu/Debian VM co-hosted on the same Xen > hypervisor as > >> the virtual router then DHCP fails. > >> > >> The workaround is to patch their dhclient from the Centos repository. > >> > > > > This bug caused a lot of problems. I'd hate to lose the fix. > Perhaps we can pull this from some non-ASF repo during build? Even > make it optional in the build, default off. > > > > -kevin > >