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[Andrey Danin <adanin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ubuntu 14.04 has qemu 2.0.0 by default. Andrey, do you hear any issues
about it?
Guys, which qemu versions we will use in MOSt 5.0?



On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Andrey Korolev <akorolev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello Aviram,
>
> Since this question raised a couple of times, I feel the necessity to
> clear the situation with the emulator version:
> - 0.12.x from RHEL, e.g. stock one, has a known bugs with the rbd
> backend whose support is critical for Fuel
> - in the second major Fuel release with official Ubuntu support there
> was 1.0 as in-distro version for 12.04 and 1.5 from backports, neither
> first of second was known for flawless work with the rbd.
> - we decided to use 1.2 in both distros for a meantime, because all
> features requested by end-users was presented in this version and it
> was more or less stable and known to work well.
>
> Right now, Fuel team receives a couple of requests for version bumping
> for the emulator because of lack of features or allowance to use
> RedHat` version (which is more closely to 1.2 that to 0.12 by number
> of backported features). Probably the next major version which will be
> introduced in Fuel is 1.6, because it`s marked as stable and I am not
> aware of any bugs specific to this version. RH version is probably not
> an option due to lack of proper rbd backend support and disabled PCI
> hotplug, which is necessary for some part of OpenStack workflow. Since
> there are national holidays in Russia, where most of team is
> presented, I think that they can make a decision at a week scale.
> Unfortunately replacing key component such as virtualization emulator
> in the virtualization solution cannot be done in a matter of days, but
> I suppose that the Fuel CI can push a button releasing separate
> branched repository for testing with new version of emulator/roms in a
> very short time.
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Aviram Bar Haim <aviramb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > My name is Aviram and I’m an engineer working at Mellanox.
> >
> > We are currently working on Mellanox-Fuel integration.
> >
> >
> >
> > The current Qemu version (1.2) that is used by Mirantis has several bugs
> > which our OFED team encountered.
> >
> > Those Bugs were already fixed in Qemu > 1.4.
> >
> >
> >
> > OFED is a required package for the Mellanox HW installation.
> >
> > When Mirantis installed a Fuel Openstack cloud inside Mellanox, they used
> > Qemu version 0.12.
> >
> >
> >
> > Our questions:
> >
> > 1.       Is there any plan to upgrade the Qemu version to 1.4 or above?
> >
> > 2.       Should we use in the meanwhile Qemu version 0.12?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Aviram
> >
> >
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