On 08/12/2016 10:25 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
A while ago, we agreed to drop support for QEMU versions older than 0.12.0, with the rationale that we should focus on operating systems that are still supported by the respective vendors, eg. RHEL/CentOS 6, Ubuntu 12.04 and SLES 11.
Recently, when discussing how to ensure a certain change will not break migration with libvirt <= 0.9.4, I started wondering whether we should apply the same rationale to libvirt versions as well.
Here's a quick run down of relevant libvirt versions:
SLES 11 → ???
Heh, the original SLES 11 had 0.4.6.
RHEL 6.0 → 0.8.1 Ubuntu 12.04 → 0.9.2
RHEL 6.8 → 0.10.2 Ubuntu 12.04.5 → 0.9.8 SLES 11 SP4 → 1.2.5
One thing I'm not clear about is whether or not SUSE, Red Hat and Canonical will support old minor releases or just the latest one.
For SLES 11, active maintenance is only on the latest one (1.2.5). SUSE provides long-term support for libvirt 1.0.5 in SLES 11 SP3, but bug reports are rare these days. SUSE also provides long-term support for SLES 10 SP4 (libvirt 0.3.3), but I haven't seen a bug report in years on that one! I'd be shocked if anyone was using SLES10 SP4 as a virtualization host :-). Regards, Jim