From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dario Faggioli Subject: Re: [libvirt] Opinions on removing the old, legacy libvirt Xen driver Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:57:01 +0100 Message-ID: <1479722221.3832.106.camel@citrix.com> References: <990edf2f-05cd-4d29-0c77-08a78c1a97dd@suse.com> <20161120223715.GB26559@wheatley> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0921633276541728889==" Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c8lLa-0000To-5V for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2016 09:57:10 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20161120223715.GB26559@wheatley> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Martin Kletzander , Jim Fehlig Cc: Libvirt List , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============0921633276541728889== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-VIyn39qeluNdw3PpTQkC" --=-VIyn39qeluNdw3PpTQkC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2016-11-20 at 23:37 +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: >=C2=A0 > I'm not familiar with Xen to such detail, particularly with its > history, > but allow me to (hopefully) help you with the decision by saying that > we > dropped support for any QEmu older than 0.12.0 (released on December > 2009).=C2=A0=C2=A0And by that I don't mean that we stopped fixing bugs fo= r > those, > but that libvirt now *mandates* version 0.12.0 or newer.=C2=A0=C2=A0That = is > what > is available in CentOS 6 and similar (or as Dan stated it "RHEL-6 era > distros).=C2=A0=C2=A0For others like me, who don't know when the Xen rele= ases > were > made, I found out (for you) that it should be March 2011 for 4.1 and > September that year for 4.2.=C2=A0=C2=A0So I'm not even going to ask in w= hich > version xl/libxl was introduced. > FYI, xl was introduced in Xen 4.1: https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XL Xen 4.1 was indeed released on=C2=A025th March 2011: https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.1_Release_Notes Xen 4.2 was released on 17 Sept _2012_: https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Release_Features Regards, Dario --=20 <> (Raistlin Majere) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK) --=-VIyn39qeluNdw3PpTQkC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABCAAGBQJYMsTtAAoJEBZCeImluHPuqnwP/Rs+TmrpS/PA0ZVM2Dn/vgsY /SkFepDsEKb9n1Tegy2xhQjLN4kz2JJO51kDxyjB4iMWkpHO1cgECj139ool1REi w5JO5xq0tWXi/xl2F8BF4651gyCjdV2fzipeVtITLizZnOoP1QuVzYFHkcT+xELy fGn59x8qBw3pEfgHBiShdFTSE9nlsij5jbRiHox8KYqYtyUkbSa1L2wxS3DANpf3 zgu0NncTtCZQeCzkEQAuK0Nq8LSijJHR9mTuzBdylhrAtLOH1KVq1RUFd/re6e2U tCxUs3/JQdROUC8xRwpXD3mYRsWlkA1xPm/Zc6F/sjV1T6yW2wQNg39SsSiOHOKw MfJbVE1thk3H114YGBDJWaCG1fl3oFEVv80O3/c92EeRe5+1Nn56lY8QWFhzjRoZ DwIu70UDJz6tWvm8SHPbReveaAm29vEXDqW+uanDqP2T1age1/Nl1wiovtg7+bge +Jkb1QirOqbuJ5BzRjpBnmFDD5F5DFON1ivLfJO7XZWnCtsAASe7X0rYrIn+ptcm 92AaqSqV8V+5MWa4kQSWlskqy6nzNfjbzU8zD9py8+Zsxm5TSf3OKz+LINO4RQsP JpiF+WZiQSZgbVdyIhXlywnr25/V1YI4BMb5bss/f3siZeADo2OweTVR+sXcuY/p RSXYFcDhte0wwa96c4ju =R6Oo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-VIyn39qeluNdw3PpTQkC-- --===============0921633276541728889== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline X19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX18KWGVuLWRldmVs IG1haWxpbmcgbGlzdApYZW4tZGV2ZWxAbGlzdHMueGVuLm9yZwpodHRwczovL2xpc3RzLnhlbi5v cmcveGVuLWRldmVsCg== --===============0921633276541728889==--