[elbe-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Change distro name in Makefile.mako

[Torben Hohn]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 04:33:11PM +0200, Olivier Dion wrote:
> 
> On 2019-07-03T14:14:39+0200, Torben Hohn wrote:
> 
> > because MACHINE=pc does not work properly, when the host is a vmware
> > machhine.
> 
> See commits
> a1f422fb6ec80b3245e74d3e07f220de48974da7
> e46272dd8ec4990a79bb9b1cf4a82d86b519a975
> 
> > i dont remember the details right now.
> > please dig a bit yourself.
> 
> The second commit log is confusing.  It's say that since pc-i440fx-2.6
> is not avaible on stretch, the heuristic, introduced by the first
> commit, should only be apply on stretch.  Those statements are in
> contraction and form an anti-thesis.
> 
> The current implementation changes MACHINE to pc-i440fx-2.6 only if
> inside vmware on stretch.  Is this the desired behavior?
> 
> Also, I don't see how I can find out if this work for buster or not.  I
> would need to test it from inside vmware no?

i am on stretch here:

-> qemu-system-x86_64 -M ?
Supported machines are:
pc                   Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of pc-i440fx-2.8)
pc-i440fx-2.8        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)
pc-i440fx-2.7        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.6        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.5        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.4        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.3        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.2        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.1        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.0        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.7        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.6        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.5        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.4        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-1.3               Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-1.2               Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-1.1               Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-1.0               Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-0.15              Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-0.14              Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-0.13              Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-0.12              Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-0.11              Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-0.10              Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
q35                  Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-2.8)
pc-q35-2.8           Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.7           Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.6           Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.5           Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.4           Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
isapc                ISA-only PC
none                 empty machine
xenfv                Xen Fully-virtualized PC
xenpv                Xen Para-virtualized PC

maybe he meant jessie ?
(ignore the commit log then)

we did not see complaints anymore, so the logic seems to
be correct.

we also saw this problem again, after we had switched to using libvirt.

the fix is here:
f5252c11c5672e1aac0c234795f146daeb463f8e



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