On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > 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?
Wheezy has roughly 1 year left (until May 2018) before it is EOL. Since 4.10 is not LTS and the fact that both Java8 and Debian Jessie could have hard to find issues I would suggest that you update the systemvm now, and work through bugs and quirks throught the 4.10.x version. I believe there are other changes, like strongswan, as well that could make 4.10 a potentially unstable version? -- Erik
