+1 CentOS 6 was a pain to make any newer features works, in regards to ancient qemu/libvirt and so on.
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 10:05, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > > > On 4/15/19 9:44 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote: > > All, > > > > > > With CentOS8 around the corner to be released sometime around the > summer, I would like to propose to deprecate CentOS6 as support management > server host distro and KVM host distro. Non-systemd enabled Ubuntu releases > have been already deprecated [1]. > > > > > > The older CentOS6 version would hold us back as we try to adapt, use and > support newer JRE version, kvm/libvirt version, the Linux kernel, and > several other older dependencies. Both CentOS6 and RHEL6 have reached EOL > on May 10th, 2017 wrt full updates [1]. > > > > > > If we don't have any disagreements, I propose we remove el6 packaging > support in the next major release - 4.13. But, if there are users and > organisations that will be badly impacted, let 4.13 be the last of releases > to support el6 and we definitely remove el6 support in 4.14. > > > > What are your thoughts? > > I agree! EL6 is just no longer suited for development. Good suggestion. > > Wido > > > > > > > [1] EOL date wiki reference: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Hypervisor+and+Management+Server+OS+EOL+Dates > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Rohit Yadav > > > > Software Architect, ShapeBlue > > > > https://www.shapeblue.com > > > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > > www.shapeblue.com > > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK > > @shapeblue > > > > > > > > > -- Andrija Panić
