[vdsm] Dependencies for VDSM in the ppc64 platform

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Feb 12 17:20:44 UTC 2014


On 02/12/2014 12:13 PM, Vitor de Lima wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I have opened some bugs about VDSM dependencies that cannot be satisfied in
> the ppc64,
> these include newer versions of QEMU, libvirt and libguestfs.
> 
>  
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063799
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057557
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064438
> 
>  
> 
> The first issue is the lack of a libguestfs package for Fedora Core 19 and 20,
> this is being worked on. Another issue is that in order to support the 3.4
> cluster compatibility level,
> VDSM requires a newer version of libvirt than the one shipped with FC19, which
> cannot be found anywhere for ppc64.
> The final issue is a bug in QEMU 1.4.2 that prevents VMs created through
> libvirt from running, this was fixed in
> later versions but also there is not a package for FC19 that has this fix.
> 
>  
> 
> So, what do you suggest? Should a virt-preview repo be created for ppc64? What
> about RHEL6?

virt-preview would be an option, if I had ppc64 hardware to do the builds :)

> Or maybe these packages should be fixed and published as updates for the
> current releases of FC and RHEL?

Our policy is not to rebase qemu or libvirt to a new version in stable fedora
releases, since the risk of regressions is just too high. And generally there
is a new fedora version every 6 months so telling people to wait for new
features isn't typically a stretch.

No idea about RHEL though.

- Cole


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