On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 11:38:51AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 11:31, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > I tend to agree. The problem is for the running VMs started before > > 82bf7ae84ce (so up to any fork based on v5.2). I don't know what > > the forks are supposed to do with the running VMs if they want to > > migrate them to newer QEMU (or upgrade the host QEMU). > > Anybody with a Cortex-A15 KVM VM is just going to have to stay > with their pre-existing ancient hardware, their pre-existing > host kernel and their pre-existing QEMU binary. That's what > "we deprecated and then dropped support for this" means: > we no longer support running that kind of VM, so users who > were doing it need to either do something else instead, or > else just keep on going with the old versions they have. >
I strongly agree. And, downstream-wise, I can't speak for anything but RHEL, but RHEL cannot have this problem. There are no 32-bit ARM builds for RHEL. Thanks, drew
