Re: Wheezy update of qemu-kvm?
- To: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>, Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>, Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com>, Jan Lübbe <jluebbe@debian.org>, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, Debian LTS <debian-lts@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Wheezy update of qemu-kvm?
- From: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 15:04:12 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 02:32:55PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 07 Jun 2016, Guido Günther wrote:
> > I'm not happy with this either. We could try to support it on a best
> > effor basis if this helps anything. I assume most people are running not
> > with mostly trusted guests.
>
> So we got answers from the sponsors with qemu/qemu-kvm listed and most of
> them would like it to be supported for longer...
>
> So best-effort basis is certainly better than no support at all and it's
> anyway what we do with most packages...
O.k. although my contribution to KVM were years back I'm at least a bit
familiar with the codebase.
> BTW is there really nobody that can be hired upstream to support old
> versions?
I just made another attempt to reach out to QEMU developers.
Cheers,
-- Guido
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