Re: [Xen-devel] Criteria / validation proposal: drop Xen

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On 11/1/19 5:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 14:58 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 7:16 PM Adam Williamson
>> <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> OK, so, to move forward with this (and looping in cloud list): does
>>> someone want to propose a set (ideally small - 2 would be great, one
>>> Xen and one non-Xen, if we can cover most common usages that way!) of
>>> EC2 instance types we should test on? With that, we could tweak the
>>> criteria a bit to specify those instance types, tweak the Cloud
>>> validation page a bit, and then drop the Xen criterion and test case.
>>>
>>
>> I'd suggest c5.large (KVM, afaict) and t3.large (Xen).
>>
>> My AWS experience is probably not representative (being mostly in the
>> HPC space), but these seem like they'd hit the two use cases I'd
>> expect to see for Fedora (compute and small servers). I would expect
>> more people would use M rather than C for Fedora, but this gets us a
>> KVM-based instance.
>>
>> Happy to hear why I'm wrong. :-)
> 
> So, let's pick this up again.
> 
> Here's my latest proposal for the criteria wording:
> 
> "Release-blocking cloud disk images must be published to Amazon EC2 as
> AMIs, and these must boot successfully and meet other relevant release
> criteria on at least one KVM-based x86 instance type and at least one
> Xen-based x86 instance type."
> 
> I also propose we tweak the Cloud matrix:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Template:Cloud_test_matrix
> 
> and replace the single "EC2" column with separate "EC2 (KVM)" and "EC2
> (Xen)" columns. We would update the ec2 instructions on that page to
> include Matt Wilson's list of KVM and Xen instance types, and provide
> info on how to actually find the right AMIs (the page it currently
> links doesn't do that).
> 
> How does that sound to everyone?

Sounds good to me.

Dusty
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