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From: rebecca@bsdio.com
To: "Jordan Justen" <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
	"Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	"Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>,
	devel@edk2.groups.io
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 1/2] OvmfPkg/build.sh: use newer '-drive if=pflash' syntax when running qemu
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:10:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <73cc1380-065a-ba32-ffee-324f0407d5ae@bsdio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <156400544049.24070.11026234673983299620@jljusten-skl>

On 2019-07-24 15:57, Jordan Justen wrote:
>
> I think we've tried to keep the range of versions that it works with
> as wide as possible, but I think we could (and perhaps should) discuss
> raising the minimum supported version of qemu. qemu 2.0 is over 5
> years old now. qemu 0.10.0 is over 10 years old.
>
> One thing that was originally problematic (for raising the qemu
> requirement) was finding windows builds of newer qemu releases. The
> main website seems to link to windows builds of the latest releases
> now: https://www.qemu.org/download/#windows


I just tried navigating the OVMF setup menu under QEMU 1.6.2 and when I
tried to enter the "IPv4 Network Configuration" settings I was sent back
the initial screen. So we might want to recommend against running older
versions just because they don't work as well.


-- 
Rebecca Cran


  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-25  2:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-24  1:51 [PATCH 1/2] OvmfPkg/build.sh: use newer '-drive if=pflash' syntax when running qemu rebecca
2019-07-24  1:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] OvmfPkg/build.sh: use $QEMU_FIRMWARE_DIR as QEMU fat root rebecca
2019-07-24  3:09   ` Jordan Justen
2019-07-24 21:31     ` rebecca
2019-07-24  2:54 ` [edk2-devel] [PATCH 1/2] OvmfPkg/build.sh: use newer '-drive if=pflash' syntax when running qemu Jordan Justen
2019-07-24  3:08   ` rebecca
2019-07-24 12:27   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-24 17:26     ` Jordan Justen
2019-07-24 17:39       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-24 21:29         ` rebecca
2019-07-24 21:57         ` Jordan Justen
2019-07-25  2:10           ` rebecca [this message]
2019-07-24 16:53 ` Michael D Kinney
2019-07-25 15:46   ` rebecca
2019-07-26  0:14 ` Laszlo Ersek

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