Ubuntu 14.04 will go EOL in April 2019. With a new CloudStack
release close to that date we can drop support for this Ubuntu
version and the master branch of CloudStack.
Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) and 18.04 (Bionic) both have systemd and
more recent Java versions which make it easier to run the CloudStack
KVM Agent on them.
In addition libvirt and Qemu are more up to date with features
which allow VMs to run better.
Yet to be implemented features in KVM can also leverage the newer
version of Qemu and libvirt without the need of taking older
version of them into account.
Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido@widodh.nl>
- systemd: Add a /etc/sysconfig/cloudstack-* file
This allows users to easily override variables passed to Java when
starting up.
It also creates a foundation for sharing the systemd service profile
between CentOS and Ubuntu since it only requires the environment file
to be changed.
- deb: Add Ubuntu 16.04 support
Ubuntu 16.04 differs from Ubuntu 14.04 in a few ways:
- systemd instead of sysvinit / upstart
- Java 8 support
The packaging now detects on which distribution it is being
build and based on that it installs different files in the
packages, but it also changes the Dependencies.
Packages for Ubuntu 16.04 will require Java 8 as a JRE
Signed-off-by: Rohit Yadav <rohit.yadav@shapeblue.com>
The new cloudstack-agent package wouldn't boot due to various issues.
Those all seem to be resolved.
Other changes include path changes like /etc/cloud -> /etc/cloudstack
The new package now installs, but the upgrade hasn't been tested yet.
Some concepts included:
* the replace.properties location used by maven is parameterized to allow
for a build that does not modify the currently git tracked files
* package naming is updated along the lines of what was discussed on the
-dev mailing list and between committers at the Build a Cloud Day in Belgi
* package version pattern is updated (since we redo all package names,
we might as well drop the epoch)
