All,
I've been working on moving our codebase and runtime-environment to Java 8, and since this is a much needed big change I want your feedback and blessings on: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1888 In order for this to work, I had to make changes in our veewee-based systemvmtemplate build scripts to install a third party opensource openjdk-8-jre distribution (xulu-8 is a openjdk-8 distribution from Azul, please review and advise wrt their terms of usage here: http://www.azul.com/products/zulu/zulu-terms-of-use/), since Debian 7 (wheezy) repositories don't have openjdk-8-jre and installing openjdk-8-jre from testing/sid updates several system packages such as libc that I wanted to avoid. Accepting this change on master/4.10 would require us to have a new systemvmtemplate for 4.10+ releases. With these changes, I've ran smoke tests across KVM, VMware and XenServer in the following PR and all of the tests are passing (ignoring known intermittent failures in vpc/rvr related tests). Thoughts, feedback? Regards. rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue
