Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 0/2] {ArmVirtPkg,OvmfPkg}/PlatformCI: stick with "ubuntu-18.04" for now

["Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 12/17/20 21:40, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> Personal build: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/1237
> 
> "vm_image: 'ubuntu-latest'" now refers to Ubuntu Focal (20.04LTS), not
> Ubuntu Bionic (18.04LTS), according to
> <https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1816>.
> 
> In Focal, the "qemu" package is a dummy package with no dependencies,
> and so the actual emulators are not pulled in. Compare:
> 
>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/qemu
>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/qemu
> 
> This causes CI runs to fail.
> 
> It would be best to switch to the "qemu-system" package name, which
> continues to depend on the emulators:
> 
>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/qemu-system
>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/qemu-system
> 
> However, while that package does make the emulators available, the
> emulators crash. So for now, stick with the previous Ubuntu environment,
> which continues to be supported, per
> <https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1816>.
> 
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>
> Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
> Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> 
> Thanks,
> Laszlo
> 
> Laszlo Ersek (2):
>   ArmVirtPkg/PlatformCI: stick with "ubuntu-18.04" for now
>   OvmfPkg/PlatformCI: stick with "ubuntu-18.04" for now
> 
>  ArmVirtPkg/PlatformCI/.azurepipelines/Ubuntu-GCC5.yml | 2 +-
>  OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/.azurepipelines/Ubuntu-GCC5.yml    | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks for the reviews, merged as commit range
e6ae24e1d676..c487970ac89d, via
<https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/1240>.

Laszlo