On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, at 3:22 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > 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 "IBM announced that KVM for IBM z will be withdrawn, effective March 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.
Already responded on IRC and on the patch, but to close the loop here: these should be fine for the next versions of SLES, thanks for checking. Colleen > > 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 Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev