Quoting Paolo Bonzini (pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx): > Il 29/07/2014 15:27, Serge Hallyn ha scritto: > > Quoting Paolo Bonzini (pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx): > >> Il 29/07/2014 15:03, Serge E. Hallyn ha scritto: > >>> > >>> And from there I think the thing to do will be to introduce a transient > >>> alternate package that has the pc-1.0 alias pointing ot pc-1.0-qemu-kvm > >> > >> This should be done in the main package, too. > > > > That seems like a problem, unless I"m misunderstanding something. If we do > > that in the main package, then anyone running a pc-1.0 system under the > > qemu package won't be able to migrate. Wouldn't it be better to have > > pc-1.0 alias by default point to the pc-1.0-qemu machine type? > > You'd break that for people who have already upgraded from 12.04 and > 14.04 and are keeping the old machine type. You'd fix it for people who > are upgrading now. > > I think providing a smoother upgrade path is worthwhile, even if it > annoys someone else. > > Unfortunately the only solution is a lot of testing *before* a release, > and in fact this is why 2.1 was delayed by a migration problem. Once > the release is out, you'll have to make someone unhappy. Right. > >>> and depends on the legacy pxe rom. > >> > >> If you can make the pxe-virtio.rom file 64k or less, then that would be > >> a good idea for 14.04 in general. Newer machine types use > >> efi-virtio.rom, so you won't break "-M pc" migration. > > > > Hm. No idea offhand how I'd do that, but it sounds worth looking into. > > I'm not sure either. You could simply package the 12.04 ipxe ROMs into > 14.04, and add a note about getting the sources for GPL friendliness. Right, as an alternate transient package, that was my original plan. I need to look at ipxe at some point soon anyway, trimming it down wouldn't hurt. thanks, -serge -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list