On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Wido den Hollander <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 08/02/2012 10:50 PM, Kevin Kluge wrote: >>> >>> >>>> So I think it's important to realize that the actual release is a >>>> source release. That makes the question (at least in my mind) what >>>> platforms will we build convenience binaries for, as I suspect anyone >>>> who builds from source doesn't really care about our concepts of >>>> 'supported platforms'. The better question to define in my mind is >>>> what versions of required libraries need to be there. (and perhaps >>>> secondarily, will it work elsewhere - for instance the existing Ubuntu >>>> 10.04 KVM support doesn't include snapshot capabilities IIRC). >>>> >>> >>> I agree with you. I just want to make it easier for users. If you say you >>> need >>> at least libvirt X.X.X and Qemu X.X.X with kernel Y.Y.Y it could confuse >>> people. >>> >>> If we say we support: >>> * Ubuntu 12.04 >>> * CentOS 6.2 / 6.3 >>> >>> But also mention which libraries we require, we should be safe? >> >> >> Yeah, exactly. Most CloudStack users will not build from source, and they >> rationally expect some statement of Linux distro (for KVM) that is required. >> They just need to know what ISOs they can boot the hypervisor host from and >> expect CloudStack to manage the host. >> >> For Ubuntu, I'd personally be fine with only supporting 12.04, but then we >> should have a procedure that tells people running CS 3.0.2 with ubuntu 10.04 >> how to upgrade to CS 4.0 with Ubuntu 12.04 with minimal downtime. Same for >> RHEL/CentOS at 6.2+. >> > > Can we conclude this with: > > Supported platforms for CloudStack 4.0 KVM HyperVisors: > - Ubuntu 12.04 > - CentOS 6.2 > - CentOS 6.3 > - RHEL 6.2 > - RHEL 6.3 > > If people want to run on a different platform, we require: > - libvirt 0.9.4 > > That is actually it, most of the heavy lifting is done by libvirt. > > The upgrade process for Hypervisors: > 1. Put in maintenance mode > 2. Make sure all instances are migrated away > 3. Upgrade the underlying Operating System > 4. Upgrade CloudStack Agent > > That should work. > > Wido
No opensuse support? --David
