Re: Ubuntu 18.04 VM tests

[Thomas Huth]

On 10/06/2022 22.41, John Snow wrote:
> Hi Alex:
>
> The Ubuntu 18.04 image is by now quite old and we could move our
> support forward to Ubuntu 20.04. I have an interest in doing so in
> order to avoid a version of pip that is old enough as to cause
> problems for some Python work I am attempting to do in order to split
> the QMP library fully out of the qemu.git tree.
>
> However, it looks like Ubuntu 20.04 does not have equivalent i386
> builds, so I can't just do a drop-and-replace. Do we need a
> replacement i386 guest of some sort?
>
> Looks like Fedora dropped i686 some time ago, debian might be our best bet?

I think so, yes. See also this thread here:

https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/CAAdtpL48v5Un8osCRr8LrsCAx4P3hcx2qb+WKLE6ADZT1QYwuw@mail.gmail.com/

 Thomas