On 08/11/2014 11:36 AM, George Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Russell Bryant <rbryant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello! I'm looking at options for configuring an OpenStack CI job that >> tests OpenStack components with the latest versions of libvirt and qemu. >> >> Fedora's virt-preview [1] repository is pretty much what we need. >> However, we would really rather run this job using CentOS. The job's >> configuration needs to work for longer than Fedora's release schedule >> would allow. >> >> Is anyone looking at doing something like this for CentOS? > > Is Fedora's virt-preview for Fedora updates, or for testing Fedora N+1? It's a separate repo entirely. I suspect it includes the versions that would be in N+1. > In general, CentOS will be pulling changes directly from upstream > RHEL, and so won't be able (I don't think) to provide something like > that for core packages. > > We can of course do that for the Virt-SIG repos; at the moment that's > limited to Xen4CentOS (although we may do an updated qemu at some > point). Notably, it would not include KVM. For those, having a > preview for updates -- particularly updating major version (like Xen > 4.2 -> 4.4) would make a lot of sense. Yeah, I was thinking of this as a separate testing repo from the virt SIG, not updates to core repos. For my particular use case, not having updated KVM isn't a big deal. We just need the latest qemu. All testing happens inside of a cloud VM, without any hardware virt support exposed. > What exactly is it that you're hoping to test? It sounds almost like > you're not hoping to test the distro, but new versions of the upstream > software. That's right. We want to test OpenStack with bleeding edge versions of libvirt and qemu, but want the underlying OS to be something supported for a longer period of time than a given Fedora release. CentOS + a testing repo with that software included would be perfect. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
