[libvirt] Drop support for old libvirt versions?

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 06:25:16PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> A while ago, we agreed to drop support for QEMU versions older
> than 0.12.0, with the rationale that we should focus on
> operating systems that are still supported by the respective
> vendors, eg. RHEL/CentOS 6, Ubuntu 12.04 and SLES 11.
> 
> Recently, when discussing how to ensure a certain change will
> not break migration with libvirt <= 0.9.4, I started wondering
> whether we should apply the same rationale to libvirt versions
> as well.
> 
> Here's a quick run down of relevant libvirt versions:
> 
>   SLES 11        → ???
>   RHEL 6.0       → 0.8.1
>   Ubuntu 12.04   → 0.9.2
> 
>   RHEL 6.8       → 0.10.2
>   Ubuntu 12.04.5 → 0.9.8
>   SLES 11 SP4    → 1.2.5

In case that matters Debian has 0.9.12 to be supported 'til May 2018.
Cheers,
 -- Guido