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Re: Does our Ubuntu support ULV CPUs?

 

Thanks, Vladimir.  So the Release Notes are correct when they say you can't
use ULV servers for the Fuel Master but you can use it for Controller,
Compute,
and Storage nodes.


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Vladimir Kuklin <vkuklin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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