On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 11:46:58AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > In the Liberty version of OpenStack we had a min libvirt of 0.9.11 and > printed a warning on startup if you had < 0.10.2, to the effect that > Mitaka will required 0.10.2 > > This mail is a reminder that we will[1] mandate libvirt >= 0.10.2 when > Mitaka is released. > > > Looking forward to the Nxxxx release, I am suggesting that we target > a new min libvirt of 1.1.1 for that cycle. > > Based on info in > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LibvirtDistroSupportMatrix > > this will exclude the following distros running running Nova Nxxx > release: > > - Fedora 20 - it will be end-of-life way before Nxxx is released > > - RHEL 6 - Red Hat stopped shipping Nova on RHEL-6 after Icehouse > and base distro only supports Python 2.6 > > - OpenSUSE 12 - this was end-of-life about 6 months ago now > > - SLES 11 - base distro only supports Python 2.6 > > - Debian Wheezy - Debian Jessie is current stable, and Wheezy-backports > provides new enough libvirt for people who wish to > stay on Wheezy > > The min distros required would thus be Fedora 21, RHEL 7.0, OpenSUSE 13 > SLES 12, Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty LTS)
If we want to be slightly more aggressive and target 1.2.1 we would additionally loose RHEL-7.0 and OpenSUSE 13.1. This is probably not the end of the world, since by the time Nxxx is released, I expect people will have moved to a newer minor update of those distros (RHEL-7.1 / OpenSUSE 13.2). Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| __________________________________________________________________________ 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