Comment 26 for bug 1710019

I have a staging PPA that I'm using for testing at ppa:dannf/lp1710019. The QEMU there is the attached debdiff (trivially) forward-ported to the latest qemu in updates, and the kernel has the patches I plan to submit to the kernel team. I've verified that this all works together on a zesty system.

I also took a look at LP: #1731051 to see if we should include that fix in this backport as well. I don't think we need to - the reboot command in question doesn't work at all in zesty (w/ or w/o these patches. I assume that was a feature added to QEMU post-2.8.

So yeah, from point-of-view this is all good to go. I'll proceed with submitting the kernel-side backport.