Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 06/21/2011 04:50 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> On 06/21/2011 06:28 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >>> On 06/20/2011 10:42 AM, Juan Quintela wrote: >>>> Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. >>>> >>> >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689672 - Guests do not start >>> after upgrading qemu to 0.13 >>> >>> Seems like our backward compatibility plan isn't working. How do we >>> address it? How do we test it? >> >> f13 is ancient, no? > > Yes, a year old. > > Furthermore, Justin tells me it carries a lot downstream patches. > >> >> I'm not sure what this particular issue is, but is this doing -M pc-0.12? >> > > It has its own machine type. So this report may not indicate any > problem with upstream. > > Still, I feel we have a potential problem here. We identify > guest-visible attributes just by review; we're sure to miss something > here and there. Unlike ordinary bugs, compatibility problems only > show up later and are much harder to fix. > > Second, we don't do any tests in this area that I'm aware of. Lucas, > what would it take (thanks, you're most kind) to test multiple qemus > in a single run? > > We can have a script that runs lspci -vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv, x86info, > and other interesting stuff and compare the results, and also system > tests that boot a guest on multiple qemus (with the same -M and > different -M) and see if things work. Suggest to compare info qtree as well. > We can probably continue on email, I don't see a real need for a call > for this topic. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
