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[xen stable-4.14] SUPPORT.md: Desupport qemu trad except stub dm



commit 5784d1e9424151adfdc836535489bd068c6c0700
Author:     Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed Nov 4 09:35:16 2020 +0100
Commit:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed Nov 4 09:35:16 2020 +0100

    SUPPORT.md: Desupport qemu trad except stub dm
    
    While investigating XSA-335 we discovered that many upstream security
    fixes were missing.  It is not practical to backport them.  There is
    no good reason to be running this very ancient version of qemu, except
    that it is the only way to run a stub dm which is currently supported
    by upstream.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    master commit: 8587160b3e2951b722d395a0346bb17c3c22152f
    master date: 2020-11-04 09:22:37 +0100
---
 SUPPORT.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/SUPPORT.md b/SUPPORT.md
index 88a182ac31..55a65ae136 100644
--- a/SUPPORT.md
+++ b/SUPPORT.md
@@ -758,6 +758,21 @@ See the section **Blkback** for image formats supported by 
QEMU.
 
     Status: Supported, not security supported
 
+### qemu-xen-traditional ###
+
+The Xen Project provides an old version of qemu with modifications
+which enable use as a device model stub domain.  The old version is
+normally selected by default only in a stub dm configuration, but it
+can be requested explicitly in other configurations, for example in
+`xl` with `device_model_version="QEMU_XEN_TRADITIONAL"`.
+
+    Status, Device Model Stub Domains: Supported, with caveats
+    Status, as host process device model: No security support, not recommended
+
+qemu-xen-traditional is security supported only for those available
+devices which are supported for mainstream QEMU (see above), with
+trusted driver domains (see Device Model Stub Domains).
+
 ## Virtual Firmware
 
 ### x86/HVM iPXE
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