FFE: create a trusty machine type

[Serge Hallyn]

We should create a new machine type, perhaps 'trusty', aliased to the newest qemu machine type. This should help us to ensure the feasability of lts-to-lts migrations from trusty to next lts.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

We should also consider making the new machine type a default in libvirt.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

The newest 2.0 candidate qemu at ppa:ubuntu-virt/candidate now has a patch to define the trusty machine type and make it default. Since this by itself would break libvirt, the ppa now also has a libvirt package recognizing 'trusty' as a i440fx machine type.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Hi - I notice that this hasn't yet gotten an ack/nack from the release team.

Ping?

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Sounds like something useful to me, granted.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

FFe bugs must be in new/confirmed for the release team to look at them, the Triaged status is for approved FFes.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libvirt - 1.2.2-0ubuntu10

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libvirt (1.2.2-0ubuntu10) trusty; urgency=medium

  * d/p/recognize-trusty-machine-type.patch: handle "trusty" qemu machine type
    (LP: #1294823)
 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:29:22 -0500

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package qemu - 2.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu1

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qemu (2.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Merge 2.0.0-rc1
  * debian/rules: consolidate ppc filter entries.
  * Move qemu-system-arch64 into qemu-system-arm
  * debian/patches/define-trusty-machine-type.patch: define a trusty machine
    type, currently the same as pc-i440fx-2.0, to put is in a better position
    to enable live migrations from trusty onward. (LP: #1294823)
  * debian/control: build-dep on libfdt >= 1.4.0 (LP: #1295072)
  * Merge latest upstream git to commit dc9528f
  * Debian/rules:
    - remove -enable-uname-release=2.6.32
    - don't make the aarch64 target Ubuntu-specific.
  * Remove patches which are now upstream:
    - fix-smb-security-share.patch
    - slirp-smb-redirect-port-445-too.patch
    - linux-user-Implement-sendmmsg-syscall.patch (better version is upstream)
    - signal-added-a-wrapper-for-sigprocmask-function.patch
    - ubuntu/signal-sigsegv-protection-on-do_sigprocmask.patch
    - ubuntu/Don-t-block-SIGSEGV-at-more-places.patch
    - ubuntu/ppc-force-cpu-threads-count-to-be-power-of-2.patch
  * add link for /usr/share/qemu/bios-256k.bin
  * Remove all linaro patches.
  * Remove all arm64/ patches. Many but not all are upstream.
  * Remove CVE-2013-4377.patch which is upstream.
  * debian/control-in: don't make qemu-system-aarch64 ubuntu-specific
 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:31:43 -0600