Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Björn Persson <Bjorn@rombobjörn.se> said:
If this will affect containers, then I'm starting to worry that I might be affected. I thought I'd be fine as the computers I run virtual machines on are x86-64-v2 and -v3, but another computer that still works fine is -v1. As popular as containers are, who knows when some program I use will switch to being distributed only as a container, and thus become unusable on the -v1 box?
Are you using containers for a different architecture (e.g. running aarch64 containers on an x86_64 host)? AFAIK that's when podman will use QEMU. If not, you would not be affected.
No I'm not, and if some upstream would decide that their program must run as a container, I'm sure they would at least allow an x86-64 container for the foreseeable future. If a need for emulation would arise, I'd do that on a newer computer. It seems I personally will be fine then.
Björn Persson