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Bug 1301111 (oVirt_Q35_tech_preview_support)

Summary: [RFE] [tech preview] Support q35-based machine type in addition to i440fx
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek>
Component: RFEsAssignee: Martin Polednik <mpoledni>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: meital avital <mavital>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.6.0CC: bgraveno, lbopf, lsurette, mgoldboi, rbalakri, redhat-bugzilla, smelamud, srevivo, ykaul
Target Milestone: ovirt-4.0.0-betaKeywords: FutureFeature, TechPreview
Target Release: 4.0.0   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: 4.0.0-12 Doc Type: Technology Preview
Doc Text:
This update provides support for the Q35-based machine type supported by QEMU, it is an alternative to older i440fx chipset. Compared to i440fx, Q35 allows for better support of PCI-e passthrough as it has a proper PCI-e bus[1]. One of the differences is also that the Q35 does not use IDE cdrom, but prefers SATA bus. The reason for that is the lack of IDE. [1] http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Q35
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: 1365938 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-08-23 20:32:05 UTC Type: Bug
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oVirt Team: Virt RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On: 1227278, 1305900, 1322248, 1330988    
Bug Blocks: 1327846, 1365938, 1532969, 1613496    

Description Michal Skrivanek 2016-01-22 15:48:16 UTC
support q35 chipset

Comment 1 Michal Skrivanek 2016-01-22 15:53:45 UTC
need to get rid of floppy and resolve CDROM (for payload/cloud-init, sysprep, and regular use).
Alternatively we may want to use USB

Comment 4 Michal Skrivanek 2016-05-18 13:27:48 UTC
We have everything in place to call this a tech preview. With patch 56588 VMs one can configure VMs with q35 chipset and they will work with CDs as well. Basic functionality should work.
Floppy support is not ready, not important enough due to tech preview status. Workarounds exist and will be documented

Comment 7 Michal Skrivanek 2016-08-10 14:38:44 UTC
code is ready in 4.0 GA but not tested, testing tracked in child bug.
It needs to be documented as a tech preview

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2016-08-23 20:32:05 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2016-1743.html