Hi,
On 30-10-17 22:41, Adam Williamson wrote:
Hi folks!
We have a 'situation' for F27 Final that needs resolving.
One blocker bug -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164492 -
definitely requires a change to gnome-boxes. That change isn't under
dispute, and is present in an update, gnome-boxes-3.26.1-4.fc27 .
So what's the problem? The problem is that update also includes
*another* change, and I'm not at all sure we actually still want that
change.
gnome-boxes-3.26.1-3.fc27 changed the default video adapter for new VMs
to 'virtio', as an attempt to workaround
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491320 . However, that bug
now appears to be addressed on the kernel side. Changing the default
video adapter for new VMs could only ever be an incomplete workaround
(it wouldn't help VMs created on other OSes, or existing VMs, or
various other situations), and I believe was a downstream-only change.
AFAIK virtio-vga definitely is the most future proof choice, it is what
we want to switch to one of these days anyways. Since this will only
impact new VMs and since once created VMs may stick around for quite
a while I think that having virtio-vga as a default for the video
adapter is a good idea.
Anyways just my 2 cents.
Regards,
Hans