[PATCH RFC 00/19] qemu: Bump minimum supported qemu to qemu-3.1

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Thu Feb 10 14:05:52 UTC 2022


On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:58:56PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 01:45:21PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > As of April 23 2022, Ubuntu 20.04 will be out for two years, which means
> > we no longer have to support Ubuntu 18.04 along with qemu-2.11 shipped
> > with it.
> >
> > The supported platforms thus will have the following qemu versions:
> >
> >        Debian 10/Stable: 3.1
> >      OpenSUSE Leap 15.3: 5.2
> >            Ubuntu 20.04: 4.2
> >         RHEL/Centos 8.4: 4.2
> >
> > If we consider 'Debian 10 backports' as update to 'Debian 10' we can
> > actually go further and update to 4.2.
>
> I don't consider 'Debian backports' to be in scope for evaluating
> min versions. Just the primary repos that can be assumed to be
> present by defualt. Only signficant exception there  is EPEL
> because RHEL/CentOS etc are so limited in their base package set.
>
> Specifically in Debian backports the project itself cautions
> against its general use https://backports.debian.org/
>
>  "Backports cannot be tested as extensively as Debian stable,
>   and backports are provided on an as-is basis, with risk of
>   incompatibilities with other components in Debian stable.
>   Use with care!"

Agreed. I'll prepare a patch clarifying this in platforms.rst.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization





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