On 3/18/21 1:37 PM, Andrew Jones wrote: > 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 >
I don't see a strong issue with this either, there is no 32bit support for KVM ARM. Thanks, Claudio
