On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 05:42:26PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 05:29:22PM -0600, Matt Riedemann wrote: > > Since danpb hasn't been around I've sort of forgotten about this, but we > > should talk about bumping the minimum required libvirt version in nova. > > > > Currently it's 1.2.1 and the next was set to 1.2.9. > > > > On master we're gating on ubuntu 14.04 which has libvirt 1.3.1 (14.04 had > > 1.2.2). > > > > If we move to require 1.2.9 that effectively kills 14.04 support for > > devstack + libvirt on master, which is probably OK. > > > > There is also the distro support wiki [1] which hasn't been updated in > > awhile. > > > > I'm wondering if 1.2.9 is a safe move for the next required minimum version > > and if so, does anyone have ideas on the next required version after that? > > I think libvirt 1.2.9 is absolutely fine as a next version. It is still > ancient history comparatively speaking. > > The more difficult question is what happens after that. To go further than > that effectively requires dropping Debian as a supportable platform since > AFAIK, they never rebase libvirt & next Debian major release is still > unannounced. So the question is whether "stock" Debian is something the > project cares about targetting or will the answer be that Debian users > are required to pull in newer libvirt from elsewhere. Debian 9.0 has been frozen, soon it will be released with libvirt 3.0.0 Previous release has 1.2.9
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libvirt0&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all > Also, it is just as important to consider minimum QEMU versions at the > same time, though it could just be set to the lowest common denominator > across distros that remain, after choosing the libvirt version. Qemu version for the next release is 2.8, previous release is 2.1 https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=qemu&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators -- 1AE0 322E B8F7 4717 BDEA BF1D 44BB 1BA7 9F6C 6333 keybase: https://keybase.io/gfa _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
