[RFC] Trusty plans for xen-api/xcp

[George Dunlap]

On 02/10/2014 03:00 PM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 10.02.2014 15:47, George Dunlap wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 01:45:44PM +0000, Robie Basak wrote:
>>>> Unless somebody steps up to maintain xen-api, I don't think it makes
>>>> sense to continue keeping these packages in Ubuntu, given that Debian
>>>> have removed them from testing and the existing packages broken (and, it
>>>> seems, thus stuck in trusty-proposed). So we should remove them from
>>>> trusty-proposed.
>>> I have filed bug 1278352 to have these packages removed from Trusty.
>> FYI, I just had a chat with the lead xapi developer.  He's said that
>> unfortunately management has told them not to work on the open-source
>> xapi packages (at least for now); so if there is nobody in the
>> community willing to maintain it, then I think removing it is probably
>> the best option.
>>
>> On a related note -- what version of libvirt / Xen will be in Trusty?
>> The SuSE guys have made a lot of progress on getting good support for
>> libxl and libvirt; that's probably the best way forward.
>>
>>   -George
>>
> Libvirt version 1.2.x (currently .1) not sure whether this may or may not change
> until release. Xen ... at least 4.3.2 (not yet uploaded) but there has been some
> interest (for the better Arm support) on 4.4. Depends a bit how soon/late the
> release is compared to Trusty.

I think it should be out by the end of the month, but you know how 
predictable software development is. :-)  We just checked in a patch 
series that should make libvirt on libxl really stable (fixed a bunch of 
obscure race conditions, apparently it now runs for days of stress 
testing without any problems), so if you could get 4.4 in, that would be 
great.  (If not, I think the series may end up being backported to 4.3 
at some point, but I'm not sure.)

> Anyway, I would like to make xl the default for new setups at least. I am
> currently using it a lot together with virt-manager (though it has some odd ends
> still) and I am being told that openstack integration is done via libvirt at
> least (not sure they mandate the stack being xl or not).

Yeah, long-term I think libvirt is going to be the most suitable thing 
from both sides.

  -George