Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] libxl: drop support for Xen < 4.6

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:03:51AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 04:31:29PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote: >> Currently the libxl driver claims support for Xen >= 4.4, but >> Xen 4.4 and 4.5 are no longer supported upstream. Let's increase >> the minimum supported version to 4.6. > > Generally libvirt would keep supporting things even if upstream > drops support, if some relevant distro still ships and supports > it. RHEL doesn't ship libxl though, so just Q of whether these > libxl versions are relevant to any Suse or Debian distros that > are actively used. BTW, if we're willing to drop old versions of Xen wrt the libxl driver, shouldn't we first drop the legacy Xen driver which is used with even older versions of Xen < 4.2 ?