superseded: [PATCH manager 00/10] enable qemu vm architecture selection

[Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>]

superseded by v2:
https://lore.proxmox.com/pve-devel/20260203102118.1430545-1-d.csapak@proxmox.com/

On 1/28/26 1:29 PM, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> This series brings the emulated aarch64 vms to the gui. This could
> be configured on the api only previously.
> 
> The code also handles if the host has a non-x86 architecture, and is
> generally structured in a way that should make it (relatively) easy
> to add other architectures in the future.
> 
> Some fields/panels needed adaptions to hide some values or change some
> defaults, since not every combination that can be configured makes
> sense. (e.g. seabios on aarch64 cannot work currently)
> 
> Generally the backend allows many combinations that don't make sense on
> all architectures, so i tried to limit the users here to the 'correct'
> ones, but we should think about limiting them in the backend too.
> 
> Also, the backend made some inconsistent choices with different
> architectures, such as the default controller changes with the
> architecture, but things like 'bios' or 'scsihw' do not. So I worked
> around these things a bit differently.
> 
> What is still missing:
> * make the disk controllers selective per architecture
>    (e.g. aarch64 has no ide controller, ovmf+aarch64 cannot boot from sata)
> * cpumodel + cpuflags need to be architecture aware
> 
> other nice to haves not yet done, that also invovle changing the backend:
> * 'virt' machine support in our api, so one can choose older versions
> * allow 'pcie' passthrough on 'virt'
> 
> Dominik Csapak (10):
>    api/pvestatd: broadcast and expose non-x86 host architecture
>    ui: resource store: add architecture field
>    ui: qemu: add architecture field in wizard and hardware view
>    ui: qemu: make scsi hw selector architecture aware
>    ui: qemu: make osdefaults architecture aware
>    ui: qemu: make os type selector architecture aware
>    ui: qemu: make machine panels/fields architecture aware
>    ui: qemu: make bios selector architecture aware
>    ui: qemu: make sortByPreviousUsage architecture aware
>    ui: qemu: wizard: use defaults to populate machine and bios
> 
>   PVE/API2/Cluster.pm                      |  9 +++
>   PVE/API2/Nodes.pm                        |  3 +-
>   PVE/Service/pvestatd.pm                  | 10 +++
>   www/manager6/Makefile                    |  1 +
>   www/manager6/Utils.js                    | 61 ++++++++++++++++--
>   www/manager6/data/ResourceStore.js       |  6 ++
>   www/manager6/form/ControllerSelector.js  |  9 ++-
>   www/manager6/form/QemuBiosSelector.js    | 61 ++++++++++++++++--
>   www/manager6/form/QemuMachineSelector.js | 64 +++++++++++++++++++
>   www/manager6/form/ScsiHwSelector.js      | 63 ++++++++++++++++++
>   www/manager6/panel/MultiDiskEdit.js      | 14 ++--
>   www/manager6/qemu/CIDriveEdit.js         |  2 +
>   www/manager6/qemu/CreateWizard.js        | 27 ++++++++
>   www/manager6/qemu/HardwareView.js        | 19 +++++-
>   www/manager6/qemu/MachineEdit.js         | 63 +++++++++++++-----
>   www/manager6/qemu/MultiHDEdit.js         |  3 +-
>   www/manager6/qemu/NetworkEdit.js         |  3 +-
>   www/manager6/qemu/OSDefaults.js          | 81 +++++++++++++++++++-----
>   www/manager6/qemu/OSTypeEdit.js          | 39 +++++++++++-
>   www/manager6/qemu/QemuBiosEdit.js        | 35 +++++++++-
>   www/manager6/qemu/ScsiHwEdit.js          |  1 +
>   www/manager6/qemu/SystemEdit.js          | 33 +++++++---
>   www/manager6/window/GuestDiskReassign.js |  1 +
>   23 files changed, 539 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 www/manager6/form/QemuMachineSelector.js
>