** Description changed:
Impact
======
The purpose of osinfo-db is to provide a database of guest operating systems
for use by virtualization provisioning tools using the libosinfo library. The
two primary users are the GNOME Boxes and Virt Manager apps.
This SRU updates the database to the latest release including OS updates
for the second half of 2024 including the release of Ubuntu 24.10 and
the end of life of Ubuntu 23.10. It also adds Ubuntu 25.04 as a
prerelease so that 25.04 ISOs are recognized (although it won't be
- suggested for download by GNOME Boxes)
+ suggested for download by GNOME Boxes).
+
+ Two notable upstream changes:
+ - Ubuntu instances installed from ISOs are now labeled like "Ubuntu Desktop
24.04 LTS" and "Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS" instead of "Ubuntu 24.04 LTS"
+ - Ubuntu now restores the 3D Acceleration option. This is disabled by
default. It had been disabled earlier because of an issue with the original
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ISOs that was fixed with an SRU and the 22.04.1 and later
ISOs. Out of an abundance of caution and to simplify testing, 3D Acceleration
is not available for 22.04 LTS guests (no matter which ISO is used) but is
available for Ubuntu 22.10 and later.
Test Case 0
===========
osinfo-db has an extensive test suite to validate the data files. If the test
suite fails, it will fail the build. These tests are also run as autopkgtests.
Ensure the build succeeds and the autopkgtest passes
Test Case 1
===========
1. Install the update
2. Open a terminal and run
sudo apt install gnome-boxes
3. Run gnome-boxes
4. Click + then press "Download an operating system" (The UI varies depending
on the version of gnome-boxes).
- 5. Select Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x86_64 (Live)
+ 5. Select Ubuntu Desktop 24.10 x86_64 (Live)
6. The ISO will download to your Downloads folder
- 7. When it completes, the wizard will prompt you to create a Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
virtual machine.
+ 7. When it completes, the wizard will prompt you to create a Ubuntu Desktop
24.10 virtual machine.
Complete the wizard.
- 8. The virtual machine should start. Finish installing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
inside. Afterwards, restart and log into the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS virtual machine.
- 9. Open a terminal and run this command: cat /etc/os-release to verify that
you are using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
+ 8. The virtual machine should start. Finish installing Ubuntu Desktop 24.10
inside. Afterwards, restart and log into the Ubuntu Desktop 24.10 virtual
machine.
+ 9. Open a terminal and run this command: cat /etc/os-release to verify that
you are using Ubuntu Desktop 24.10.
10. Afterwards, you can power off the virtual machine.
Test Case 2
===========
From a terminal, run
osinfo-query os vendor="Canonical Ltd"
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 23.10, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.10
- should be included in the list.
+ Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10, and Ubuntu 25.04 should be included in
+ the list.
Where problems could occur
==========================
It is always possible to use ISOs not recognized by osinfo-db with either
GNOME Boxes or Virt Manager. osinfo-db provides useful metadata like
recommended RAM, recommended hard disk size, and what virtualized hardware
interfaces are supported.
This update significantly improves the ability of those apps to
- recognize distros released in the first half of 2024, while also
+ recognize distros released in the second half of 2024, while also
updating some metadata details for older releases.
The most likely possible problem is that some download links may no
- longer work. However, we know that the Ubuntu 23.04 download links were
- broken before this update and 24.04 LTS was marked as pre-release so in
- general download links will be better with this update.
+ longer work, but upstream runs tests at release time (which was January
+ 24) to verify that links are working then.
** Changed in: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Noble)
Status: Incomplete => In Progress
** Changed in: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Oracular)
Status: Incomplete => In Progress
** Changed in: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Noble)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: osinfo-db (Ubuntu Oracular)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: osinfo-db (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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