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

[Fam Zheng]

On 2022-05-11 13:13, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé via wrote:
> +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.

Yes I believe these are not needed by patchew anymore.

Fam