Re: [PATCH manager v2 0/4] fix #7801: ui: warn about problematic virtio versions on iso select

[Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval@proxmox.com>]

"Nicolas Frey" <n.frey@proxmox.com> writes:

> On Thu Aug 27, 2026 at 8:14 AM CEST, Dominik Csapak wrote:
>> high level question: could it make sense to have this
>> warning also on the backend, e.g. in the start task?
>>
>> that way a user only using the cli/api would also see it, not
>> only the ui users.
>>
>> if that makes sense, we might want to keep a list
>> of versions on the backend and expose it via the api
>> for the gui?
>
> I think both of these points make sense to implement, I can add it in the
> next revision
>
>>
>> on the backend we could even match the sha256 sum or something like
>> that (if that's not too much of a performance hit on start) to
>> check if it's really the right version
>>
>
> while I guess this is a better heuristic to check against instead of
> just relying on the filename, I think unless performing the sha256
> sum once and caching it, it would be too much of an unnecessary
> performance hit.
>
> [snip]

>From my experience in support, I do not remember seeing a case where the
filename was not the same as the one from the downloads at
https://fedorapeople.org.

On the same topic, a big percentage of tickets have to devolve into
asking customers to downgrade drivers because they have a version with
issues. Multiple customers have genuine non-driver related issues, but
we cannot start debugging those until they downgrade the drivers to
0.1.271 which takes a couple of rountrips/days.

-- 
Maximiliano