I don't think anyone wants to drop the feature. The thought was, will fixing support for this HV push release back by a large amount? And if so, then could the feature fix come after 4.0 in the form of 4.0.1.
And I completely agree that if this is the case, it should be documented, or the upgrade be blocked for current OVM users, as to avoid confusion. -----Original Message----- From: Caleb Call [mailto:calebc...@me.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:02 PM To: cloudstack-us...@incubator.apache.org Cc: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Drop OVM in 4.0? On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:40 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Frank Zhang <frank.zh...@citrix.com> wrote: >> OVM is broken in 4.0 even these patches don't have license issue. It takes a while to fix. >> I vote to dropping it from 4.0 > > Aside from the licensing issues - what are the issues that keep OVM > from working in 4.0? > Can we get bugs filed for those issues? > This is a major feature being dropped - this needs to likely sit for a > few days so people have a chance to weigh in on whether to block 4.0 > for this or not. > > --David I agree, this is a major feature to drop support for. This is one major feature (of many) that drove us to favor Cloudstack over some of the other IaaS options out there. If it doesn't block 4.0, I would make it very clear that the support for OVM is not in 4.0 so that a customer doesn't upgrade thinking (assuming) you wouldn't drop such a major feature. Maybe go as far as adding something in the upgrade that if OVM is currently used, the upgrade fails.
