Re: [Xen-devel] Criteria / validation proposal: drop Xen

[Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 21:43 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 09:11 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > It's worth noting that at least part of the justification for the
> > > criterion in the first place was that Amazon was using Xen for EC2, but
> > > that is no longer the case, most if not all EC2 instance types no
> > > longer use Xen.
> > 
> > I don't know where you got that particular piece of information. It
> > isn't correct. Most EC2 instance types still use Xen. The vast majority
> > of EC2 instances, by volume, are Xen.
> 
> Correct, it's only specific types of new hypervisors that use kvm
> based, plus new HW like aarch64.
> 
> That being said I don't believe testing we can boot on xen is actually
> useful these days for the AWS use case, it's likely different enough
> that the testing isn't useful, we'd be much better testing that cloud
> images actually work on AWS than testing if it boots on xen.

Yeah, that's where I was going to go next (there has already been a
thread about this this morning). If what we care about is that Fedora
boots on EC2, that's what we should have in the criteria, and what we
should test.

IIRC, what we have right now is a somewhat vague setup where we just
have 'local', 'ec2' and 'openstack' columns. The instructions for
"Amazon Web Services" just say "Launch an instance with the AMI under
test". So we could probably stand to tighten that up a bit, and define
specific instance type(s) that we want to test/block on.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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