Hi all, ### 4.5 Release Effort
I’ve been exhaustively testing ACS 4.5 wrt Xen 6.2, Xen 6.5, KVM (qemu 2.0, 2.3) and I feel we’re pretty good but we need testing efforts and I want to help drive efforts to releasing ACS 4.5.1 -- if you’ve any issues that you would like to get fixed that are either regressions or blockers can you please share on this thread? If we don’t find any blockers or regressions let us invest in ACS 4.5 testing and release it soon. For other minor issues we can always fix them and release 4.5.2 etc if and when needed in future. Regarding my 4.5 testing - I’ve tested basic vm life cycle operations (deploy, start, stop, destroy/expunge, migrate to another host, migrate to another storage pool, deploy using iso) for all cases and found no issues; KVM with basic zone (with/without security groups, SG blockers were found and fixed) KVM with Adv zone (with/without security groups, both isolated network and VPC worked, networking issues were found and fixed) XenServer 6.2 with basic and adv zones (with/without security groups, no SG issues found) XenServer 6.5 with basic and adv zones (with/without security groups, SG blockers found and fixed) I found one issue that could be a blocker (if it’s not a hardware/env issue) -- when using security groups in advance zone with a dedicated vlan id (say vlan://500), I was unable to access the VMs (CPVM, SSVM, VR or user vms) though all normal vm_life cycles seems to work. Though this worked for me when I used the vlan://untagged. I tried to add vlan id 500 to my local nics using vconfig but I still was n’t able to do access the CPVM or user VMs. I guess my understanding of vlans with security groups is limited, so if anyone knows about this feature or has used it - please help with some regression testing. I plan to continue testing this week with VMWare and fix any issues we find. ### Testing against Xen, KVM, VMWare etc. With a recent improvement to allow cpu features (such as vmx) on KVM hosts (https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/commit/58cc569273905c50d089f9fd82fe80028b4e9775), it’s now possible to run KVM, ESX, XenServer, OVM3 (LXC, and hopefully others) on KVM (in case of ESX a patched qemu would be needed: http://people.apache.org/~bhaisaab/qemu/). Such a (ansible based) tool aims to be reproduce such an environment for anyone and serve as a developer kit (not to be confused with the DevCloud appliance, will share more details of the developer kit later) and as an infrastructure to run integration testing suite we have now. This would allow us to build/test/run CloudStack against various nested-virtualized hosts running as guests on KVM, using CloudStack. Meanwhile, Abhi is focusing on existing (integration) tests and has increased the number of TravisCI tests: https://travis-ci.org/apache/cloudstack/builds/60365947 Our goal with these efforts is to (1) have a developer kit that a developer can have locally to build/test/develop CloudStack, (2) scale it up for bigger baremetal servers to run long running integration tests and have a better QA automation. Regards, Rohit Yadav Software Architect, ShapeBlue M. +91 88 262 30892 | rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com Blog: bhaisaab.org | Twitter: @_bhaisaab Find out more about ShapeBlue and our range of CloudStack related services IaaS Cloud Design & Build<http://shapeblue.com/iaas-cloud-design-and-build//> CSForge – rapid IaaS deployment framework<http://shapeblue.com/csforge/> CloudStack Consulting<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-consultancy/> CloudStack Software Engineering<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-software-engineering/> CloudStack Infrastructure Support<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-infrastructure-support/> CloudStack Bootcamp Training Courses<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/> This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales. ShapeBlue Services India LLP is a company incorporated in India and is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. Shape Blue Brasil Consultoria Ltda is a company incorporated in Brasil and is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue SA Pty Ltd is a company registered by The Republic of South Africa and is traded under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue is a registered trademark.
