I'm having a hard time understanding why we should change behavior here. There was a bug in QEMU, that bug has been fixed for over two years, and the fix should be present in QEMU packaged by any self-respecting distro. I'm going to mark this as wontfix. If you disagree, let me know.
** Changed in: nova Status: In Progress => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781558 Title: Change default video model from cirrus to vga Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Won't Fix Bug description: Change default video model from cirrus to vga Because of the bug of qemu[1], using cirrus video model is dangerous. To fix this problem, change the default video model, and disable cirrus forever. [1]: CVE-2017-2615 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu- devel/2017-02/msg00015.html To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1781558/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp