Re: [libvirt] Dropping RHEL-6/CentOS-6 support
On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 14:18 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The above is to point out that users of Centos 6 usually
won't compile
> libvirt and qemu from sources since they want to enjoy benefits of a
> stable platform with tested software. Sticking upstream versions on top
> of that defies the purpose.
NB, RHEL is not the only distro we target - when I say we should target
RHEL-6 as the oldest platform, I use that mostly as an example of the
approximate vintage. I would consider any still supported Debian version
that is the same age as RHEL-6 to be a valid platform too, likeise for
Ubuntu LTS releases or SLES. At least some of those will using fairly
vanilla QEMU version without feature backports.
Do you mean SLES 11, RHEL 6 or Ubuntu 12.04 are likely to get the
latest upstream libvirt release as a vendor update?
I tend to agree with Peter when he says that people stick with older
versions of software because they have a working setup and don't want
to risk it breaking, and replacing vendor-provided system components
with manually compiled upstream releases kinda goes in the opposite
direction :) I would definitely never have risked anything like that
in my previous life as a system administrator.
And of course we want to support way more than just RHEL and related
distros: this is about making the support shallower, not narrower :)
Cheers.
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Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team