ShapeBlue Advisory on Libvirt 8+ Compatibility Issues with CloudStack
Overview As of the 4.15 release, CloudStack has supported various EL8 operating systems / hypervisors, namely RHEL 8, CentOS 8, Rocky Linux 8 (and in theory – as of CloudStack 4.16 – all other EL8 variants including e.g. Alma Linux 8) – for both management servers and hypervisors. Similarly, support for Ubuntu 20.04 was added as of CloudStack 4.15, and OpenSUSE as of 4.16. All these Linux systems worked fine as hypervisors, until libvirt was upgraded to version 8+. Effects on CloudStack Historically, CloudStack used to set 22-character VNC passwords for KVM Virtual Machines, and libvirt was silently trimming it […]