Ubuntu on IBM z Systems

  1. Bug #1887924
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1887924

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Frank Heimes (fheimes) wrote : Re: [20.10 FEAT] zKVM: Add support for virtio-fs

Even if the changes are not significant, they are not yet upstream accepted (which is a requirement for picking them up) and with that they are not yet reviewed nor widely tested.
Hence the suggestion is (especially now after groovy feature freeze: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2020-August/001279.html) to properly bring the modifications upstream and get it tested and stabilized, so that it's ready for the inclusion into 21.04.
(Please notice that virtio-fs was even for amd64 just recently added.)
A FFe (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze) would require special approval and a strong rationale with business case.
If the main reason is early testing, I think it's best to create PPA with a patched qemu version.