Hi Dave, I use CentOS7.2 with the following package as per OpenStack official documentation, 'centos-release-openstack-liberty'. It works just fine, no major issues so far. I haven't tried snapshots so thanks for highlighting the support may not be there.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, if I want to use the RHEV stack of KVM Qemu and other related packages, I should install: 'centos-release-qemu-ev' after installing 'centos-release-openstack-liberty'? thx will On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 3:04 AM, David Moreau Simard <d...@redhat.com> wrote: > If you are deploying on CentOS (with RDO?), you can enable the CentOS > Virtualization special interest group [1] repository. > > The repository contains qemu-kvm-ev >= 2.3 backported from RHEV. > It is recommended as the qemu-kvm version from base CentOS > repositories is not high enough and lacks some features (things like > snapshots, iirc). > > qemu-kvm >= 2.3 is actually a requirement in RDO >= Newton and we'll > bundle the CentOS virtualization SIG repository in our release > packages. > > [1]: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization > > David Moreau Simard > Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO > > dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter] > > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:00 AM, William Josefsson > <william.josef...@gmail.com> wrote: >> thanks everyone, I verified setting mem_stats_period_seconds = 0 as >> suggested by Corbin in nova.conf libvirt section, and then restarting >> openstack-nova-compute service and it works! >> >> While this seems to be a workable workaround I'm not sure what's the plans >> to permanently fix this in CentOS7.2? thx will >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Corbin Hendrickson >> <corbin.hendrick...@endurance.com> wrote: >>> >>> Oh you can read it in the bug thread, but I forgot to mention, if you put >>> in your nova.conf under the libvirt section mem_stats_period_seconds = 0, >>> and restart nova on the destination (although i'd say just do it on both) it >>> will no longer hit the bug. I tested this a couple weeks back with success. >>> >>> Corbin Hendrickson >>> Endurance Cloud Development Lead - Manager >>> Cell: 801-400-0464 >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Corbin Hendrickson >>> <corbin.hendrick...@endurance.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> It unfortunately is affecting virtually all of Redhat's latest qemu-kvm >>>> packages. The bug that was unintentionally introduced was done so in >>>> response to CVE-2016-5403 Qemu: virtio: unbounded memory allocation on >>>> host >>>> via guest leading to DoS. >>>> >>>> Late in the bug thread, they finally posted to a new bug created for the >>>> breaking of live migrate via Bug 1371943 - RHSA-2016-1756 breaks migration >>>> of instances. >>>> >>>> Based off their posts i've been following it's likely going to "hit the >>>> shelves" when RHEL 7.3 / CentOS 7.3 comes out. It does look like they are >>>> backporting it to all their versions of RHEL so that's good. >>>> >>>> But yes this does affect 2.3 as well. >>>> >>>> Corbin Hendrickson >>>> Endurance Cloud Development Lead - Manager >>>> Cell: 801-400-0464 >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Van Leeuwen, Robert >>>> <rovanleeu...@ebay.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> > There is a bug in the following: >>>>> >>>>> > >>>>> >>>>> > qemu-kvm-1.5.3-105.el7_2.7 >>>>> >>>>> > qemu-img-1.5.3-105.el7_2.7 >>>>> >>>>> > qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-105.el7_2.7 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> You might be better of using the RHEV qemu packages >>>>> >>>>> They are more recent (2.3) and have more features compiled into them. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> Robert van Leeuwen >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> OpenStack-operators mailing list >>>>> OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org >>>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-operators mailing list >> OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators >> _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators