Re: [PATCH] Remove Ubuntu 18.04 support from the repository

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé via" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>]

+Fam
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 1:03 PM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/05/2022 12.46, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > +Robert
> >
> >   On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:30 AM Daniel P. Berrangé
> > <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 09:56:12PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >>> According to our "Supported build platforms" policy, we now do not support
> >>> Ubuntu 18.04 anymore. Remove the related files and entries from our CI.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>   Seems like nobody touched the 18.04-based tests/vm/ubuntu* files in a
> >>>   very long time, so I assume these are not used anymore and can completely
> >>>   be removed now.
> >>
> >> Or it could mean that they are working fine and so haven't needed
> >> changes...
> >
> > Yes :)
>
> At least for me "make vm-build-ubuntu.aarch64" is only failing with ssh
> timeouts (on my x86 laptop) ... is this really supposed to work with TCG, or
> is this KVM (on arm hosts) only?

Yes this timeout code is not working. I suppose it is tied to the TCG host perf.
I suggested a pair of patches to increase it but back then Fam didn't accepted
them because IIRC these VMs were used by patchew (previous to Gitlab).
Today we have better framework for testing, so I wouldn't use this script on
CI, but it is still valuable for manual testing.

Robert's email doesn't work anymore. Since I don't have x86 workstation
anymore, I'll probably use these tests/vm for testing. So let me add a
"upgrade tests/vm/ubuntu to 22.04" to my TODO list. If I fail and nobody
miss them, then I won't object to remove them.

Regards,

Phil.