On Thu, 29 Oct 2026 at 17:33, Mohamed Mediouni <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29. Oct 2026, at 18:13, Peter Maydell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you think we should deprecate the "vmapple" machine type, or do > > you hope to resurrect it still?
> I do hope to get it resurrected as an optional feature still, but > the issue is that it’ll stay (by design) a reverse-engineered model. > > I need to spin a new revision of the patches for that though. > > It will break from time to time and cannot come with an expectation > of short-term (as in, anything past 6 months) stability/build-ability. Hmm. If it's going to break every six months or so then I'm not sure it's really a good fit for upstream QEMU. As we've seen, we haven't really in practice been able to get updates to it into the tree particularly quickly, and most downstreams will be operating on a slower cadence. If we had a larger group of people interested in cooperating on maintaining it upstream then that would help, but we don't really seem to have that. thanks -- PMM
