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. -- Andrea Bolognani Software Engineer - Virtualization Team