Package: osinfo-db Version: 0.20181120-1+deb10u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
When creating a virtual machine using virt-manager, it prompts me to select the operating system, and tries to select appropriate hardware, based on what libosinfo knows about what devices are supported. The consequence of this is that if I select "rhel-7.6" or "rhel-7-unknown" as the OS, virt-manager will select virtio disk and network devices. However, if I select "rhel-8.0" or "rhel-8-unknown" or "rhel-unknown", then virt-manager will select less efficient virtual devices (IDE disk drive and e1000 network card.) (It also won't include a virtual RNG device, which is arguably a bug in virt-manager - I think adding a virtual RNG should be harmless for OSes that don't support it, so it should be included unconditionally.) It'd be possible to fix this and similar issues by constantly updating the stable version of osinfo-db as new OSes are released. However, it would be wise to be more future-proof by default. For OSes that are *not yet released* (as RHEL 8.0 was not yet released at the time osinfo-db was uploaded for Debian 10), in the absence of other information, it seems best to assume they will support the same hardware as the previous version. (In particular, for RHEL, it seems unlikely that RHEL 9 will drop support for the virtio devices that are provided by qemu in RHEL 8, and so forth.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.152-1.pvops.qubes.x86_64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- no debconf information
