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[Andrey Danin <adanin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay. We will discuss our qemu version migration strategy after MOSt 5.0
will be issued. It should occur a week later or so.


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Andrey Korolev <akorolev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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