On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 1:15 PM Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 11/05/2022 13.13, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 1:03 PM Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> On 11/05/2022 12.46, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > >>> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:30 AM Daniel P. Berrangé > >>> <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > >>>> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 09:56:12PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > >>>>> According to our "Supported build platforms" policy, we now do not > >>>>> support > >>>>> Ubuntu 18.04 anymore. Remove the related files and entries from our CI. > >>>>> > >>>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> > >>>>> --- > >>>>> Seems like nobody touched the 18.04-based tests/vm/ubuntu* files in a > >>>>> very long time, so I assume these are not used anymore and can > >>>>> completely > >>>>> be removed now. > >>>> > >>>> Or it could mean that they are working fine and so haven't needed > >>>> changes... > >>> > >>> Yes :) > >> > >> At least for me "make vm-build-ubuntu.aarch64" is only failing with ssh > >> timeouts (on my x86 laptop) ... is this really supposed to work with TCG, > >> or > >> is this KVM (on arm hosts) only? > > > > Yes this timeout code is not working. I suppose it is tied to the TCG host > > perf. > > I suggested a pair of patches to increase it but back then Fam didn't > > accepted > > them because IIRC these VMs were used by patchew (previous to Gitlab). > > Today we have better framework for testing, so I wouldn't use this script on > > CI, but it is still valuable for manual testing. > > > > Robert's email doesn't work anymore. Since I don't have x86 workstation > > anymore, I'll probably use these tests/vm for testing. So let me add a > > "upgrade tests/vm/ubuntu to 22.04" to my TODO list. If I fail and nobody > > miss them, then I won't object to remove them.
So, 18.04 is the latest LTS release for 32-bit x86 (i386). IIRC we used this 32-bit VM to reproduce bugs only triggered on 32-bit hosts (while it seems obvious, what is not obvious is that very few developers run on 32-bit hosts, so I'm not sure how long we are interested in avoiding bugs there). See i.e.: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/07a865e0-d535-9a19-cf29-f90984bcd...@amsat.org/ > All right, I'll respin my patch with the VMs excluded (and containers moved > to a separate patch). > > Thomas > >
