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Bug 2031035 - Add rhel-8.6.0 machine types for RHEL 8.6 [x86]
Summary: Add rhel-8.6.0 machine types for RHEL 8.6 [x86]
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm
Version: 8.6
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Dr. David Alan Gilbert
QA Contact: jingzhao
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Depends On:
Blocks: 2031032
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-12-10 11:16 UTC by Cornelia Huck
Modified: 2022-05-10 13:37 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-6.2.0-5.module+el8.6.0+14006+80bd780c
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Last Closed: 2022-05-10 13:24:21 UTC
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Gitlab redhat/rhel/src/qemu-kvm qemu-kvm merge_requests 99 0 None None None 2022-01-11 19:51:58 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-105362 0 None None None 2021-12-10 11:19:15 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:1759 0 None None None 2022-05-10 13:25:03 UTC

Description Cornelia Huck 2021-12-10 11:16:42 UTC 
The rhel-8.6.0 machine types need to be added for x86.
Comment 1 John Ferlan 2021-12-10 20:58:37 UTC 
How does this differ from existing bug 2022604?  Can we close this as a duplicate of that - being sure to update bug 2031032 with the (older) reference...
Comment 2 Cornelia Huck 2021-12-13 08:52:25 UTC 
(In reply to John Ferlan from comment #1)
> How does this differ from existing bug 2022604?  Can we close this as a
> duplicate of that - being sure to update bug 2031032 with the (older)
> reference...

Same as for the other bug(s) -- the existing bug deals with compat values, this one with the actual machine types.
Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2021-12-16 12:09:59 UTC 
Note historically the RHEL x86 machine types have overridden some of the SMBIOS defaults:

    pcmc->smbios_stream_product = "RHEL-AV";
    pcmc->smbios_stream_version = "8.5.0";

In 8.6,  RHEL-AV was folded back into RHEL. So there's a question of whether we should still refer to the 'smbios_stream_product' as "RHEL-AV" or revert to "RHEL"

IIUC, this info is used as a hook for things like the Windows drivers, so the safe option might be to leave it as 'RHEL-AV' for the remainder of RHEL-8.x series, and only change to 'RHEL' in the RHEL-9.x series machine types.
Comment 4 Dr. David Alan Gilbert 2021-12-16 19:46:47 UTC 
(In reply to Daniel Berrangé from comment #3)
> Note historically the RHEL x86 machine types have overridden some of the
> SMBIOS defaults:
> 
>     pcmc->smbios_stream_product = "RHEL-AV";
>     pcmc->smbios_stream_version = "8.5.0";
> 
> In 8.6,  RHEL-AV was folded back into RHEL. So there's a question of whether
> we should still refer to the 'smbios_stream_product' as "RHEL-AV" or revert
> to "RHEL"
> 
> IIUC, this info is used as a hook for things like the Windows drivers, so
> the safe option might be to leave it as 'RHEL-AV' for the remainder of
> RHEL-8.x series,

That seems safest; I'd rather not change anything in drivers if not essential.

> and only change to 'RHEL' in the RHEL-9.x series machine types.

Do we even have to do that?  If we just left it witht he -AV on the end it wouldn't hurt anyone
and would give a chance for the same image to work on 8 and 9
Comment 5 Daniel Berrangé 2021-12-17 13:18:59 UTC 
(In reply to Dr. David Alan Gilbert from comment #4)
> (In reply to Daniel Berrangé from comment #3)
> > IIUC, this info is used as a hook for things like the Windows drivers, so
> > the safe option might be to leave it as 'RHEL-AV' for the remainder of
> > RHEL-8.x series,
> 
> That seems safest; I'd rather not change anything in drivers if not
> essential.
> 
> > and only change to 'RHEL' in the RHEL-9.x series machine types.
> 
> Do we even have to do that?  If we just left it witht he -AV on the end it
> wouldn't hurt anyone
> and would give a chance for the same image to work on 8 and 9

We don't have to change it, I just felt it looks wierd to be refering to a product that no longer exists. even in RHEL-8 it was a little weird because the same machine types were used by RHEL & RHEL-AV.

I put a similar comment on the corresponding rhel9 bug 1945666 so we can consider it separately.
Comment 14 Yanan Fu 2022-01-27 02:29:02 UTC 
QE bot(pre verify): Set 'Verified:Tested,SanityOnly' as gating/tier1 test pass.
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-10 13:24:21 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 (Moderate: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update), 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1759
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