@lagarcia - That is unfortunate to hear, as I'm sure people would benefit in general from the fixes in the stable release - if we can ensure well enough that there are no new issues introduced.
So for now I'd ask you to imagine somebody else has requested it and I still would want to get an ack from IBM for ppc64el and s390x prechecking the PPA I provided in comment #5. If you have clear reasons to abstain (e.g. known issues in 2.11.2) please state them, then we will stop considering 2.11.2 for now. But if not, please try if you can allocate some test resources and let me know of a ETA when such tests could conclude. ** Description changed: [Impact] * qemu Upstream maintains stable branches to collect considered to be safe patches - we are at 2.11.1 atm and requested to consider the most recent 2.11.2 [Test Case] * Being a stable but full minor release means there is no single good test to verify. Instead we will pass plenty of regression checks on it before calling it good. * The biggest single change is on intel-iommu which we will test explicitly using manual passthrough tests [Regression Potential] * Due to the nature of the change (more than a single fix, affecting multiple areas of qemu) the chances are higher to hit a regression. To avoid hitting any in the field I'll run the full qemu regression suite we have but also would want to leave it longer in proposed and e.g. ask the Openstack Team to give it a test before releasing. * In regard to "327d4645 spapr: make pseries-2.11 the default machine type" and its siblings as well as VSMT which caused trouble in the past we will need IBM to re-check for PPC if the resulting build is ok according to their testing as well. [Other Info] * Lets make sure we catched all pre-checks: #1 DONE - Openstack to test the PPA - #2 TBD - IBM to confirm no issues around HTM being added - #3 TBD - Canonical migration and general Virt regression checks + #2 TBD - IBM to confirm no new issues on ppc/s390x platforms + #3 DONE - Canonical migration and general Virt regression checks Only once those are all confirmed we will put it into SRU review and there retest #3 and the passthrough cases. --- == Comment: #0 - Leonardo Augusto Guimaraes Garcia <lagar...@br.ibm.com> - 2019-02-01 13:00:47 == Since June 2018 QEMU has a more recent stable version (2.11.2) than the one provided in Ubuntu 18.04.1 (2.11.1). This new version comes with a number of bug fixes, which should be incorporated to Ubuntu 18.04.1. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1815477 Title: Upgrade QEMU to version 2.11.2 in Ubuntu 18.04.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-systems/+bug/1815477/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
