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[Vladimir Kuklin <vkuklin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/fuel/+bug/1321701


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Andrey Danin <adanin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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Vladimir Kuklin,
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