On 29.02.2024 11:23, Julien Grall wrote: > On 29/02/2024 07:58, Jan Beulich wrote: >> Therefore being too >> eager there would mean I can't really / easily (smoke) test Xen >> anymore on ancient hardware every once in a while. When afaict we do >> too little of such testing already anyway, despite not having any >> lower bound on hardware that formally we support running Xen on. > > Can you provide more details of what you mean by "ancient"?
Formally we support running Xen on any x86 hardware supporting 64-bit mode. I don't think I have any 1st gen systems left, but I think a 2nd gen SVM and a 2nd gen VMX one is what I still have around. >> (And >> no, upgrading the ancient distros on that ancient hardware is not an >> option for me.) > > May I ask why? Is it because newer distros don't support your HW? Because as part of my job I also need to support ancient versions of Xen on ancient distros. Since I need to keep those around, it makes sense to me to then also test modern Xen there (every now and then, as said, and not really extensively). Jan
