8 a.m.
Per this link:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds
VirtualBox 6.0 (active maintenance)
VirtualBox 5.2 (active maintenance)
VirtualBox 5.1 (no longer supported, support ended 2018/04)
VirtualBox 5.0 (no longer supported, support ended 2017/05)
VirtualBox 4.3 (no longer supported, support ended 2015/12)
VirtualBox 4.2 (no longer supported, support ended 2015/12)
VirtualBox 4.1 (no longer supported, support ended 2015/12)
VirtualBox 4.0 (no longer supported, support ended 2015/12)
We can certainly drop all the 4.x versions. The host OS those are
officially supported on are very outdated:
eg
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_3
Linux Hosts:
Ubuntu 13.04 ("Raring") / 13.10 ("Saucy") / 14.04
("Trusty") / 14.10 ("Utopic") i386 | AMD64
Ubuntu 12.10 ("Quantal") i386 | AMD64
Ubuntu 12.04 ("Precise") i386 | AMD64
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ("Lucid") i386 | AMD64
Debian 7 ("Wheezy") i386 | AMD64
Debian 6 ("Squeeze") i386 | AMD64
openSUSE 12.3 / 13.1 i386 | AMD64
openSUSE 11.4 / 12.1 / 12.2 i386 | AMD64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES11) i386 | AMD64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) i386 | AMD64
Fedora 18 ("Spherical Cow") / Fedora 19 ("Schrödingers Cat") i386
| AMD64
Fedora 17 ("Beefy Miracle") i386 | AMD64
Mandriva 2011.0 i386 | AMD64
Oracle Linux 6 ("OL6") / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ("RHEL6") /
CentOS 6 i386 | AMD64
Oracle Linux 5 ("OL5") / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ("RHEL5") /
CentOS 5 i386 | AMD64
All distributions i386 | AMD64
Although the catch all "All distributions" suggest it might work with
newer distros, they are clearly a second tier from a support POV. All
these explicitly targetted distros are outside libvirt's support policy.
There is a question as to whether to delete 5.0 and 5.1 support from
libvirt.
There are no remainining #ifdef VBOX_API_VERSION conditionals in the
vbox_tmpl.h file related to code differences between 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2,
so keeping them is not a maint burden in code.
The main burden is distributing the large vbox_CAPI_v5_0.h and
vbox_CAPI_v5_1.h files which are ~1 MB in size (uncompressed)
or ~85 kb (xz compressed). IOW versions 5.0 and 5.1 increase
the release tarballs by a small amount, but nothing that is
too unreasonable vs the overall size of 14 MB for libvirt source.
Thus I have kept 5.0 and 5.1 support.
VirtualBox 6.0 came out in Dec 2018 and given past practice it
would not suprise me if that has API changes impacting libvirt.
So some interested party might want to look at supporting that
in libvirt.
In v2:
- Also remove deleted files from the Makefile
- Stop including the old deleted 4.0 API file
Daniel P. Berrangé (7):
vbox: drop support for VirtualBox 4.x releases
vbox: drop C API definition for release 4.0
vbox: drop C API definition for release 4.1
vbox: drop C API definition for release 4.2
vbox: drop C API definition for release 4.2.20
vbox: drop C API definition for release 4.3
vbox: drop C API definition for release 4.3.4
src/vbox/Makefile.inc.am | 12 -
src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_0.h | 7451 -----------------------
src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_1.h | 7882 ------------------------
src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_2.h | 8855 ---------------------------
src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_2_20.h | 9001 ----------------------------
src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_3.h | 10210 -------------------------------
src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_3_4.h | 10321 --------------------------------
src/vbox/vbox_V4_0.c | 37 -
src/vbox/vbox_V4_1.c | 37 -
src/vbox/vbox_V4_2.c | 13 -
src/vbox/vbox_V4_2_20.c | 13 -
src/vbox/vbox_V4_3.c | 13 -
src/vbox/vbox_V4_3_4.c | 13 -
src/vbox/vbox_XPCOMCGlue.h | 2 +-
src/vbox/vbox_common.h | 14 +-
src/vbox/vbox_storage.c | 14 +-
src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c | 218 +-
src/vbox/vbox_uniformed_api.h | 10 +-
18 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 54108 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_0.h
delete mode 100644 src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_1.h
delete mode 100644 src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_2.h
delete mode 100644 src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_2_20.h
delete mode 100644 src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_3.h
delete mode 100644 src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v4_3_4.h
delete mode 100644 src/vbox/vbox_V4_0.c
delete mode 100644 src/vbox/vbox_V4_1.c
delete mode 100644 src/vbox/vbox_V4_2.c
delete mode 100644 src/vbox/vbox_V4_2_20.c
delete mode 100644 src/vbox/vbox_V4_3.c
delete mode 100644 src/vbox/vbox_V4_3_4.c
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