On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 11:21 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 11:14:45AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > > 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/ > > At some point we'll need to just admit 32-bit host is dead, and that > point is getting ever closer. For now though, if we need a VM for > 32-bit testing, the easiest answer is probably to tweak the VM config to > be Debian based, as that's functionally closest to what Ubuntu provides > and so likely not too much work.
Thanks for the tip, great idea!
