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Re: Does our Ubuntu support ULV CPUs?

 

I think Ubuntu is fine. Vladimir, can you confirm it?

Thanks,


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Meg McRoberts <mmcroberts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I have the following note in the 5.0 Release Notes.
> Do we know that the Ubuntu distro in our release
> supports these CPUs?
>
> Thanks much,
> meg
>
> CentOS does not support some newer CPUs
> ---------------------------------------
>
> The CentOS does not support some recent CPUs
> such as the latest Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) line by Intel
> (Core iX-4xxxU, Haswell);
> newer ultralite Ultrabooks are usually equipped with such CPUs.
>
> As a result, the Fuel Master node
> (which always runs the CentOS distribution)
> cannot be deployed on these systems.
> Controller, Compute, and Storage nodes can use these systems
> but they must use the Ubuntu distribution.
>
> As a workaround, you can use a virtualization manager,
> such as QEMU or KVM, to emulate an older CPU on such systems.
> Note that VirtualBox has no CPU model emulation feature.
> See `LP1322502 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/fuel/+bug/1322502>`_.
>
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