On 20/01/20 12:18, Paul Durrant wrote: >> >> What would future domUs lose if 'xenfv' would be locked to 'pc-i440fx-3.0'? > > I guess eventually that pc type would be removed and then we'd have a > compat issue.
That's years away, so ideally libxl would have migrated away from xenfv before that. For now, sticking to a fixed version as in Olaf's patch is a good stopgap measure. Paolo > Ideally I think libxl should simply not use xenfv and > then it can be deprecated and removed, and then such issues can be > dealt with directly in xl/libxl.