Hi Drew, On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 12:27, Andrew Jones <drjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > I suppose we could check the version of QEMU and use the above > > defaults only for earlier versions of QEMU. > > This is something we will probably move to aarch64vm.py since it is common. > > What versions of QEMU do these tests *have* to support? Because we could > just skip the tests for QEMU that doesn't support cpu=max,gic-version=max. > 'max' is indeed the nicest selection for using the same command line on > KVM (gicv2 and gicv3 hosts) and TCG. I believe these test scripts which build/launch the VM have to support the older version of QEMU since this is the version of QEMU currently used when these VMs are launched. I don't know the history on this, but it seems intentional that we use one older/different version of QEMU to launch the VM, while we test the 'current' build of QEMU inside the VM. It also seems like a 'nice to have' to automatically support the latest version where we could use max as you pointed out. Thanks & Regards, -Rob
