Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PULL 25/26] block: Remove deprecated -drive option serial
On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 13:32:29 +0200
Kevin Wolf <kwolf(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Has serial/gemoetry been fixed meanwhile and will it
make it into the
> > > next release?
> >
> > I cannot find an archive that has it, but it is on the libvirt mailing
> > list as "[libvirt] [PATCH v3] qemu: format serial and geometry on frontend
disk device".
> > Review seems done, but it has missed libvirt 4.5 which was released today.
>
> Just posted latest version here:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-July/msg00130.html
>
> It will be in the next release on ~ Aug 1st
It would have been a lot nicer to have it the July release because this
means that we'll have the released libvirt broken during almost the
whole rc phase of QEMU 3.0, but the release is planned for Aug 8th the
earliest, so I guess we're still okay. People using QEMU from git will
just need libvirt from git as well.
Speaking as an innocent* bystander:
I would usually presume that I can use any recent libvirt to test
current QEMU, even bleeding edge. In this case, not even the latest
released libvirt version will be fine, I would also need to build
libvirt from git (which is probably not something a non-libvirt
developer will usually do). If everything goes according to plan, I can
only test QEMU with a released libvirt version at the very tail end of
hardfreeze, where only release blockers are appropriate.
I think it would be really beneficial to general QEMU test coverage to
push deleting this option back a release or two. We should make testing
QEMU in conjunction with libvirt as uncomplicated as possible.
*YMMV