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On Fri, 2020-09-18 at 13:01 +0200, Balázs Gibizer wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:20, Radosław Piliszek 
> <radoslaw.piliszek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a version of qemu that works on Focal that deployment
> > projects could use now?
> 
> We use the train ubuntu cloud archive to get an unaffected qemu 
> version, which is now 4.0
that is what we are going to do for bionic.
we cant do that for focal.
there is no focal package for train.
the cloud archive can only be used for backprots of new packages form new releases.

we shoudl be abel to get 5.0 form the victoria cloud archive when 20.10 is released which hopefully wont have
the issue we are seeing 4.3?
> 
> cheers,
> gibi
> 
> > 
> > -yoctozepto
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:16 PM Balázs Gibizer 
> > <balazs.gibizer at est.tech> wrote:
> > > 
> > >  Hi,
> > > 
> > >  I want to raise a potential conflict between the fact that OpenStack
> > >  Victoria officially supports Ubuntu Focal[3] and a high severity
> > >  regression in Nova [1] caused by a qemu bug [2] in the qemu version
> > >  that is shipped with Focal.
> > > 
> > >  The Nova team documented[4] it as a limitation without a known
> > >  workaround in Nova. Also as far as I know Canonical does not support
> > >  downgrading the qemu version so I don't see a viable workaround on
> > >  Focal side either.
> > > 
> > >  Is the Nova reno[4] enough from the TC perspective to go forward 
> > > with
> > >  the switch to Focal and with the Victoria release?
> > > 
> > >  cheers,
> > >  gibi
> > > 
> > >  [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1882521
> > >  [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1894804
> > >  [3] 
> > > https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/runtimes/victoria.html
> > >  [4] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/752654
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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