Hello, i'm new to CloudStack and I'm planning to build cloud environment in small datacenter.

I tested it already on CentOS 6.x , Ubuntu 10.04 and ubuntu 11.10.

In case of CentOS , there was a problem with libvirt (why the installation packages were not updated, this bug is known for couple of months).

On Ubuntu 10.04 i think it was fine. Ubuntu 11.10 is not officially supported, but if you change sha-bang line from python to python 2.6 in the configuration scripts, it works.

Ubuntu is more up-to-date, but it is not industry standard OS like RHEL.
On the other side, Cloudstack package for RHEL contains much more installation packages, sometimes patched, which doesnt' seem good to me (I always prefer to stick to packages from repository). And this problem with libvirt, still unresolved inside packages, looks a bit scary.

My question is, what distribution should I use, which will have better support.
I see that there is cloudstack 3.x beta version available for RHEL 6.2 only, so looks like this is the main target for future development?

There will be soon Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, so i wonder if this one will be supported by cloudstack?

Any help will be appreciated, thanks!
Janusz


PS. sorry, by accident I put it into 'Announcements', this topic should be in General...

We went into production with RHEL 6.1. Also tried Centos on test environments.

We've tried ubuntu with ancient versions (like 2.2.4), but problems with sudoers configuration prevent it from working.

thx.

So CentOS/RHEL are the distributions for which you can currently buy support contracts, so there are far far more folks working on QA and testing internal to Citrix.

WRT Ubuntu - we'd like to support LTS's - Ubuntu as you noted is far more up to date, but without someone in the community stepping up to keep packages updated for each release, we are unlikely to see that happen (as a package maintainer for Fedora, maintaining stuff for a fast moving release can be painful and terribly time consuming.)

There should be RHEL 6.0/6.1/6.2 binaries built, and it is the target for future development.
One problem you'll note if you use Ubuntu with KVM is lack of snapshot support for live machines - we wrote the stuff for breaking snapshots out of the qcow2 files, but it isn't in qemu versions that old (which is why we patch EL6 qemu packages - which to my knowledge is the extent of our patching) We've talked with RHT about getting that patch into 6.x - but unknown if it will happen.

Thank you. CentOS 6.2 chosen.

I installed Cloudstack 2.2.13 el6.1, hope that there is no problem under RHEL 6.2. I used qemu-* packages for RHEL6.2 from Cloudstack 3.0 beta installation package.

That should work fine.

ke4qqq wrote:


That makes me a sad panda. I have been working with Ubuntu for a while, and it was so much easier to get ntlmaps to work under Ubuntu than under CentOS. Since I am the "Linux" guy at work, I am trying to make things easier for others to pickup where I leave off. I was really looking forward to seeing Cloudstack 3 under Ubuntu 12.04.