Per [1] the Debian 10 reaches EOL in August of 2022. This allows us to
bump the minimum supported qemu version to qemu-4.2 which will also
allow us to do significant cleanups.
This commit bumps the minimum qemu verison and updates the corresponding
docs.
[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
While libvirt solves most of the problem of ensuring compatibility, when
there is incompatibility it can be hard for users to track down the
cause. Everything knows to check the physical CPU model, but there are a
surprisingly large number of other factors influencing compatibility.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
In the qemu driver certain configs such as disk throttling or CPU
hotplug is configured by interacting with the monitor at the startup
phase of the hypervisor and thus is not part of the "native config".
Add a paragraph into the documentation outlining that the native
configuration might not be completely usable.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
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.
This then brings the minimum qemu version we have to support to
qemu-3.1:
Debian 10/Stable: 3.1
OpenSUSE Leap 15.3: 5.2
Ubuntu 20.04: 4.2
RHEL/Centos 8.4: 4.2
Next event in this space will be 2023/07/06 when Debian 11 will be out
for two years.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Upcoming patches will add possibility to override configuration of a
device with custom properties as a more versatile replacement to using
QEMU's '-set' parameter, which doesn't work when we use JSON to
instantiate devices.
Describe the XML used for the override as well as expectations of
upstream support in case something breaks.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
It's worth to make the domain type a little bit more visible than a row
in news. An example of hvf domain is available on QEMU driver page.
While at it, mention Hypervisor.framework on index page.
Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Brad Laue <brad@brad-x.com>
Tested-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
As of May 7 2021, rhel-8 will be out for two years, which means we no
longer have to support rhel-7 ancient qemu.
QEMU versions in our supported distros:
RHEL-8: 2.12
Debian Stable: 3.1
OpenSuse LEAP 15.0 (SLES15 GA): 2.11
OpenSuse LEAP 15.2: 4.2
Ubuntu (Bionic): 2.11
Ubuntu (Focal): 4.2
This means we can bring up the minimum supported version to 2.11.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Similar to the qemu.conf knob 'deprecation_behavior' add a per-VM knob
in the QEMU namespace:
<qemu:deprecation behavior='...'/>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
There are two links to this document using anchors so they need to be
updated as well.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
