>>>(a) KVM for IBM z Systems: John Garbutt pointed out[3] on IRC that: >>> "IBM announced that KVM for IBM z will be withdrawn, effective March >>> 31, 2018 [...] development will not only continue unaffected, but >>> the options for users grow, especially with the recent addition of >>> SuSE to the existing support in Ubuntu."
>>> The message seems to be: "use a regular distribution". So this is >>> covered, if we a version based on other distributions. Yes, IBM don't have a product on s390x anymore per [3] indicated, we are cooperating with distro in enablement and for openstack, KVM on z has its own 3rd CI maintaining by us per [5] [5] http://ci-watch.tintri.com/project?project=nova (IBM zKVM CI ) Best Regards! Kevin (Chen) Ji 纪 晨 Engineer, zVM Development, CSTL Notes: Chen CH Ji/China/IBM@IBMCN Internet: jiche...@cn.ibm.com Phone: +86-10-82451493 Address: 3/F Ring Building, ZhongGuanCun Software Park, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, PRC From: Kashyap Chamarthy <kcham...@redhat.com> To: openstack-operat...@lists.openstack.org, openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Date: 09/24/2018 09:28 PM Subject: [Openstack-operators] RFC: Next minimum libvirt / QEMU versions for 'T' release Hey folks, Before we bump the agreed upon[1] minimum versions for libvirt and QEMU for 'Stein', we need to do the tedious work of picking the NEXT_MIN_* versions for the 'T' (which is still in the naming phase) release, which will come out in the autumn (Sep-Nov) of 2019. Proposal -------- Looking at the DistroSupportMatrix[2], it seems like we can pick the libvirt and QEMU versions supported by the next LTS release of Ubuntu -- 18.04; "Bionic", which are: libvirt: 4.0.0 QEMU: 2.11 Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu (Bionic), openSUSE currently already ship the above versions. And it seems reasonable to assume that the enterprise distribtions will also ship the said versions pretty soon; but let's double-confirm below. Considerations and open questions --------------------------------- (a) KVM for IBM z Systems: John Garbutt pointed out[3] on IRC that: "IBM announced that KVM for IBM z will be withdrawn, effective March 31, 2018 [...] development will not only continue unaffected, but the options for users grow, especially with the recent addition of SuSE to the existing support in Ubuntu." The message seems to be: "use a regular distribution". So this is covered, if we a version based on other distributions. (b) Oracle Linux: Can you please confirm if you'll be able to release libvirt and QEMU to 4.0.0 and 2.11, respectively? (c) SLES: Same question as above. Assuming Oracle Linux and SLES confirm, please let us know if there are any objections if we pick NEXT_MIN_* versions for the OpenStack 'T' release to be libvirt: 4.0.0 and QEMU: 2.11. * * * A refresher on libvirt and QEMU release schedules ------------------------------------------------- - There will be at least 12 libvirt releases (_excluding_ maintenance releases) by Autumn 2019. A new libvirt release comes out every month[4]. - And there will be about 4 releases of QEMU. A new QEMU release comes out once every four months. [1] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/commit/?h=master&id=28d337b -- Pick next minimum libvirt / QEMU versions for "Stein" [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LibvirtDistroSupportMatrix [3] http://kvmonz.blogspot.com/2017/03/kvm-for-ibm-z-withdrawal.html [4] https://libvirt.org/downloads.html#schedule -- /kashyap _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list openstack-operat...@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
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