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[Andrey Korolev <akorolev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2.0 may be good as 1.6 but again, it needs a lot of testing before
inclusion. libguestfs interaction, migration, if possible - testing on
a broad hw spectrum - version matters least there, well-known
stability prevails :)

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Andrey Danin <adanin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
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> 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.
>>
>>
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>> 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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