docs: Make dev guide prefer vanilla qemu to qemu-lite #68
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Provide a pointer to the versions database to allow developers to see the range of golang versions known to work. Signed-off-by: James O. D. Hunt <james.o.hunt@intel.com>
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Updated the developer guide to explain that vanilla qemu is now the preferred hypervisor rather than the `qemu-lite` package used for Clear Containers. Fixes kata-containers#67. Signed-off-by: James O. D. Hunt <james.o.hunt@intel.com>
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I think the default we want is still -lite, and the config should reflect this by default. |
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The build default change was done on kata-containers/runtime#119. There is some discussion there but of course we did merge the change. I can close this PR or modify it to state the following maybe?
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| Note that `qemu` version 2.10 may also work but will not perform as well |
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Note that qemu version 2.10 might also work but will not perform as well
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| However, note that the use of `qemu-lite` is deprecated in favour of |
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Suggest replacing "favour" with "favor": @jodh-intel maybe we should have @rcaballeromx make a call on whether we go with American or British English as a rule for instances moving ahead?
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@jodh-intel should we close this PR, or? |
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I think so yes. To summarise:
Closing this PR but I'll raise another to explain that discrepancy to devs... |
Updated the developer guide to explain that vanilla qemu is now the
preferred hypervisor rather than the
qemu-litepackage used for ClearContainers.
Also, provided a pointer to the versions database to allow developers to see the range of golang versions known to work.
Fixes #67.
Signed-off-by: James O. D. Hunt james.o.hunt@intel.com