Hi Richud, while the bug here was a special case with the wily type being used in Xenial and therefore to be retained until the EOL of xenial has passed. It is different for other machine types like the ones you see issues with atm.
Keeping the old types "almost forever" is a common habit as people just don't think about them usually. That has for several users caused much more pain later on. Therefore it is intended to (please choose your preferred word) hint/encourage/enforce users to finally upgrade machine types to pick up new features, stability and security fixes bound to new types only. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QemuKVMMigration#Support_Matrix Due to that the qemu in Ubuntu 18.10 dropped Zesty and Yakkety intentionally. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626070 Title: Removal of former release machine types breaks VMs using them To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1626070/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
