why the old qemu version?

[kasperk81]

latest podman desktop (1.15) vm is packing qemu 8.2.7 on mac

% podman run --rm --privileged --pid=host debian nsenter -t 1 -m -u -n -i qemu-aarch64-static --version
qemu-aarch64 version 8.2.7 (qemu-8.2.7-1.fc40)

which according to
https://www.qemu.org/download/

is not the latest version. why not 'always' package the latest available release version of qemu? it's not like old version doesn't have bugs, but likelihood of someone reporting those bugs, getting them fixed upstream are high. so it's always a good idea to package the latest version and point people to report qemu bugs in their gitlab repo issue tracker. right now, we need to wait additional months for podman to package the latest version feels a bit off. :(

[afbjorklund]

They key is in "fc40", it is using Fedora 40 (via CoreOS) and the new version comes in Fedora 41:
https://repology.org/project/qemu/versions

[kasperk81]

ah right, fc42 has the latest 9.2 https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/qemu/qemu/. any chance podman switches to bleeding-edge fedora version then?

[afbjorklund]

The Podman Machine OS follows Fedora CoreOS, so it will get there eventually. Minor updates (8.2.8) will come earlier...

FROM quay.io/fedora/fedora-coreos:stable

https://fedoraproject.org/coreos/release-notes?stream=stable

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=qemu

If you wanted updates sooner, you could build your own image or perhaps run a regular Fedora (Rawhide) VM directly?

You could also skip system qemu-user packages, and use qemu from a container (https://github.com/tonistiigi/binfmt).