On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:58:56PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 01:45:21PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > > As of April 23 2022, Ubuntu 20.04 will be out for two years, which means > > we no longer have to support Ubuntu 18.04 along with qemu-2.11 shipped > > with it. > > > > The supported platforms thus will have the following qemu versions: > > > > Debian 10/Stable: 3.1 > > OpenSUSE Leap 15.3: 5.2 > > Ubuntu 20.04: 4.2 > > RHEL/Centos 8.4: 4.2 > > > > If we consider 'Debian 10 backports' as update to 'Debian 10' we can > > actually go further and update to 4.2. > > I don't consider 'Debian backports' to be in scope for evaluating > min versions. Just the primary repos that can be assumed to be > present by defualt. Only signficant exception there is EPEL > because RHEL/CentOS etc are so limited in their base package set. > > Specifically in Debian backports the project itself cautions > against its general use https://backports.debian.org/ > > "Backports cannot be tested as extensively as Debian stable, > and backports are provided on an as-is basis, with risk of > incompatibilities with other components in Debian stable. > Use with care!" Agreed. I'll prepare a patch clarifying this in platforms.rst. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
