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charset="utf-8" Hardly anybody really requires the i386 binary anymore, since the qemu-system-x86_64 binary is a proper superset. So let's deprecate the 32-bit variant now, so that we can finally stop wasting our time and CI minutes with this. With regards to 32-bit KVM support in the x86 Linux kernel, the developers confirmed that they do not need a recent qemu-system-i386 binary here: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/Y%2ffkTs5ajFy0hP1U@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 15084f7bea..11700adac9 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -34,6 +34,18 @@ deprecating the build option and no longer defend it in = CI. The ``--enable-gcov`` build option remains for analysis test case coverage. =20 +``qemu-system-i386`` binary (since 8.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``qemu-system-i386`` binary was mainly useful for running with KVM +on 32-bit x86 hosts, but most Linux distributions already removed their +support for 32-bit x86 kernels, so hardly anybody still needs this. The +``qemu-system-x86_64`` binary is a proper superset and can be used to +run 32-bit guests by selecting a 32-bit CPU model, including KVM support +on x86_64 hosts. Thus users are recommended to reconfigure their systems +to use the ``qemu-system-x86_64`` binary instead. + + System emulator command line arguments -------------------------------------- =20 --=20 2.31.1