On 19 April 2018 at 08:59, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > I wouldn't say people don't care about SLE11 (or other similarly old distros > like RHEL-6). Rather the view in libvirt was that if a user is stuck on such > an old distro, they are likely doing that because they want the stability > inherant in running fixed software versions for years. IOW it is unlikely > that they want the stability of an old distro, combined with cutting edge > libvirt and/or QEMU.
Well, it depends. You might be stuck with an old distro because some software you want to run depends on it, but also want to run newer versions of some programs like QEMU. If you're in that boat you can probably live with having to also compile a newer version of glib to go with your newer QEMU, though. I think the policy as outlined in that libvirt page seems a good one (it's basically a codification of what we've been doing already), with a few tweaks -- I think we still believe we support some older OSX releases, and would want to mention NetBSD/OpenBSD I guess. thanks -- PMM
