Oh, I did know that, thanks for sharing Will.

I was reading their Release notes; it seems that their “major changes”
section does not reflect the experience you are getting.

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Will Stevens <wstev...@cloudops.com>
wrote:

> CentOS changes a LOT, especially around networking, so I would not be
> surprised if it does not work. It still takes me like 20 minutes to figure
> out what the hell I am doing when I login to CentOS7.  No ifconfig, no
> iptables, etc, etc, etc...  They pretty much did a wholesale change of
> everything you expect to be there.
>
> Lots of testing will have to be done on this and I have not tried to do
> that yet...
>
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> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Rafael Weingärtner <
> rafaelweingart...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Considering those scripts you are right; but, my main concerns would be
> > regarding some XAPI change. The scripts that we create and inject into
> the
> > Dom0 should not be that intrusive.
> >
> > I do not know about the differences between CentOS 6 and 7, but the only
> > way I see a script stopping working is that if a program that the script
> > uses does not come with the CentOS 7 that is bundled with XenServer or if
> > that program does not work with CentOS 7 anymore.
> > I do not recall every single task that those scripts execute, at the top
> of
> > my memory I can say that they play with the systems' firewall. They also
> > mount, copy, and move some files around. I believe they also remove some
> > configurations from the XAPI sometimes.
> >
> > Looking at the release notes in [1], it seems that none of the scripts
> > should stop working. However, to be sure about every single function and
> > task that ACS execute on XenServer a batch of tests would be required.
> >
> >  [1]
> >
> >
> https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7#head-b02657cf2e223edb2d7946cbc45086d42c2bb41b
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Paul Angus <paul.an...@shapeblue.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Rafael
> > >
> > > We don’t purely use XAPI with XenServer.
> > > XenServer 7 has a CentOS7 dom0 rather than CentOS6.  We do a whole load
> > of
> > > stuff behind the scenes with python and shell scripts a chunk of which
> > > won't work anymore.
> > >
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > >
> > > Paul Angus
> > >
> > > paul.an...@shapeblue.com
> > > www.shapeblue.com
> > > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London  WC2N 4HSUK
> > > @shapeblue
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rafael Weingärtner [mailto:rafaelweingart...@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: 25 May 2016 14:12
> > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> > > Subject: Re: XenServer 7
> > >
> > > Will there be any change on the XAPI? If not, it already works (just
> the
> > > new functions, if any, that will not be used).
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Paul Angus <paul.an...@shapeblue.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is anyone here working on XenServer 7 support for CloudStack?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards,
> > > >
> > > > Paul Angus
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > paul.an...@shapeblue.com
> > > > www.shapeblue.com
> > > > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London  WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rafael Weingärtner
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rafael Weingärtner
> >
>



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Rafael Weingärtner

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