I know that master had a bunch of cleanup work to make things work better (commits were a month ago), but baring any significant issues, being able to support a newer XenServer should be as simple as a database update. So net of this master *today* should work fine with 6.5 (and the various pre-release builds since beta.2).
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > Someone correct me if I'm wrong but, if a previous XenServer resource class > can handle the newer version of XenServer, then I don't think you need to > make any changes to CloudStack files to use that newer version. > > If you do see some incompatibility with that version of XenServer, then > someone would need to create a new resource class to handle the > discrepancies. > > On Monday, October 20, 2014, Adrian Lewis <adr...@alsiconsulting.co.uk> > wrote: > > > Out of interest, on the assumption that there are no issues with using > 6.5 > > when it's released and there are no backwards-compatibility problems, > will > > it then work with 4.4.1 or does CS need to be *explicitly* told that > newer, > > effectively unknown versions are 'acceptable' as a valid hypervisor? > > Basically, If we deploy CS 4.4.1 and we like the look of XS 6.5 when it > > comes out, will we need to make any changes to CS to start using it? If > so, > > are these simple edits to the contents of a file or would it require > > rebuilding? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Stephen Turner [mailto:stephen.tur...@citrix.com <javascript:;>] > > Sent: 20 October 2014 15:28 > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <javascript:;> > > Subject: RE: xenserver 6.5 > > > > I think it should be minimal, because although there are large internal > > changes (e.g., 3.x kernel, 64-bit dom0, new Xen, new storage datapath, > > PVHVM > > mode for RHEL/CentOS 7), the interface is essentially unchanged. > > > > -- > > Stephen Turner > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Daan Hoogland [mailto:daan.hoogl...@gmail.com <javascript:;>] > > Sent: 20 October 2014 14:32 > > To: dev > > Subject: xenserver 6.5 > > > > Does anybody (know of) work on supporting xenserver 6.5 or has an idea of > > how much effort that is going to be? > > > > -- > > Daan > > > > > -- > *Mike Tutkowski* > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > o: 303.746.7302 > Advancing the way the world uses the cloud > <http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>*™* >
