On 17/10/25 15:16, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 02:41:04PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
The following machines:
- virt-6.0
- virt-6.1
- virt-6.2
- virt-7.0
- virt-7.1
- virt-7.2
have been supported for a period of more than 6 years. According
to our versioned machine support policy (see commit ce80c4fa6ff
"docs: document special exception for machine type deprecation &
removal"), they can now be removed.
Err ythat calculation is wrong. The 6.0 release dates from 2021,
so the virt-6.0 machine has not even existed for 5 years yet.
The versioned machine type macros automatically mark machines as
deprecated on the required timescale, and will automatically hide
deprecated machines when they hit the removal point.
IOW, a versioned machine can be removed if-and-only-if the output
from '$QEMU -machine help' no longer includes the machine version.
None of these can be removed yet.
Right, OK.
