11:40 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 12:28:46PM -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
On 04/03/2018 10:56 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Describe how we decide which host platforms to support for libvirt,
> which in turn makes it easier to decide when a platform / software
> version can be dropped.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com>
> ---
> docs/index.html.in | 2 +-
> docs/platforms.html.in | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 docs/platforms.html.in
>
> diff --git a/docs/index.html.in b/docs/index.html.in
> index 1b3a7a3db6..4783c39e3c 100644
> --- a/docs/index.html.in
> +++ b/docs/index.html.in
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
> The libvirt project:
> </p>
> <ul>
> - <li>is a toolkit to manage virtualization hosts</li>
> + <li>is a toolkit to manage <a
href="platforms.html.in">virtualization platforms</a></li>
> <li>is accessible from C, Python, Perl, Java and more</li>
> <li>is licensed under open source licenses</li>
> <li>supports <a href="drvqemu.html">KVM</a>,
> diff --git a/docs/platforms.html.in b/docs/platforms.html.in
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..859b482428
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/docs/platforms.html.in
> @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> +<!DOCTYPE html>
> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> + <body>
> + <h1>Supported host platforms</h1>
> +
> + <ul id="toc"></ul>
> +
> + <h2>Build targets</h2>
> +> + <p>
> + Libvirt drivers aim to support building and executing on multiple
> + host OS platforms. This document outlines which platforms are the
> + major build targets. These platforms are used as the basis for deciding
> + upon the minimum required versions of 3rd party software libvirt depends
> + on. If a platform is no listed here, it does not imply that libvirt
> + won't work. If an unlisted platform has comparable software versions
> + to a listed platform, there is every expectation that it will work.
> + Bug reports are welcome for problems encountered on unlisted platforms
> + unless they are clearly older vintage that what is described here.
> + </p>
> +
> + <h3>Linux OS</h3>
> +
> + <p>
> + For distributions with frequent, short-lifetime releases (Fedora,
> + Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, etc), the project will aim to support all versions
> + that are not end of life by their respective vendors.
> + </p>
> +
> + <p>
> + For distributions with long-lifetime releases (RHEL, Ubuntu LTS,
> + SLES, etc), the project will aim to support the most recent major
> + version at all times. Support for the previous major version will
> + be dropped 2 years after the new major version is released.
> + </p>
> +
> + <h3>Windows</h3>
> +
> + <p>
> + The project supports building with current versions of the MinGW
> + toolchain, hosted on Linux.
> + </p>
> +
> + <h3>OS-X</h3>
> +
> + <p>
> + The project supports building with the current version of OS-X,
> + with the current homebrew package set available.
> + </p>
> +
> + <h3>FreeBSD</h3>
> +
> + <p>
> + The project will aim to support the most recent major version
> + at all times. Support for the previous major version will
> + be dropped 2 years after the new major version is released.
> + </p>
> +
Could we add some sort of table where we could keep track of "known" and
supported OS versions, what libvirt version was used, what QEMU version
was used?
<table class="top_table">
<tr>
<th> OS Release </th>
<th> QEMU Version </th>
<th> libvirt Version </th>
</tr>
</table>
I'm sure Red Hat folks could easily list the Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS
versions... Probably need a few others to provide feedback on their
particular host platform of choice.
Once created it is a periodic maintenance task.
Sure, we can do that - i wonder if it would be better served by a
wiki page though ?
I vaguely recall that there's a web site somewhere that actually
lists software versions in various distros, but can't remember
what it is now :-(
Regards,
Daniel
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