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Re: Does our Ubuntu support ULV CPUs?

 

I am not aware of any issues regarding Ubuntu 12.04.4 ULV support.


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Mike Scherbakov
<mscherbakov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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>
>
> --
> Mike Scherbakov
> #mihgen
>
>


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