Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Warn about deprecated hosts

[Andrew Jones]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:49:53AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:08:22AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > This list is definitely too all-encompassing, and we should
> > move at least some of the BSDs into "not-deprecated".
> > I'm posting the patch for the moment for code review on the
> > logic and as a placeholder.
> 
> FreeBSD is the one where I most frequently see developers engaging across
> the overall virt tools stack (QEMU/libvirt/virt-manager/OpenStack).
> GNU/kFreeBSD has come up a few times in libvirt, and I don't recall seeing
> anyone mentioning the remaining BSDs - though perhaps thats because the
> FreeBSD port fixes are enough to also make other BSDs work.

OpenBSD just came up this week regarding kvm-unit-tests. Someone is
attempting to test vmd, the openbsd hypervisor, using the openbsd port
of qemu and kvm-unit-tests.

(just pointing that out, not making a deprecate/don't-deprecate statement)

Thanks,
drew