Task for release notes: mention the discontinuation of very old machine types
x86 <= 2.5 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/667e170d https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/ff63280a https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/ce80c4fa Thereby the pc-q35-xenial, pc-i440fx-xenial, pc_i440fx_wily and pc-i440fx-trusty machine types that were based on these will also be dropped. What that means is that created in Xenial (16.04) can migrate to bionic, focal, jammy and noble but will no more be able to do so to questing and later. Noble as 22.04 will be operational until 2027/2032/2034 which means the guests can continue to be hosted as-is until that time comes. That is up to 18 years of lifetime of the guest, ready to drink alcohol in many countries. Of course if you use Xenial with all extra time of support it can offer and spawn it on the last day of it in 2028, the support in the subsequent release still able to host it will be "only" be for 6 more years which still is very good. I have to admit I'm somewhat happy that upstream forces us to let go of the twisted wily type. On s390x that cleanup was more aggressive removing all <= 4.1 Which means here focal stays, but all earlier (artful - eoan) are gone. In this case the time period mentioned above starts from Bionic instead of Xenial and hence is 2 years shorter - still able to drive in the united states at least. On ppc64 that has no impact as distro types started with disco and 3.1 and that type is still present. On arm we never started to have a named types so far. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2115707 Title: merge qemu 10.1 for questing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/2115707/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
