[fedora-virt] qemu user emulation test package, and is GUEST_BASE broken?
Glauber Costa
glommer at redhat.com
Mon Apr 13 16:46:43 UTC 2009
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:25:52PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>
> > - We'd recommend people do "yum install Virtualization" rather than
> > manually installing individual RPMs
>
> a reasonable suggestion, but the current definition of that group
> looks a bit strange on f11 beta:
>
> $ yum groupinfo Virtualization
> Loaded plugins: downloadonly, refresh-packagekit
> Setting up Group Process
>
> Group: Virtualization
> Description: These packages provide a virtualization environment.
> Mandatory Packages:
> python-virtinst
> Default Packages:
> qemu-system-ppc
> qemu-system-x86
> virt-manager
> virt-viewer
> Optional Packages:
> gnome-applet-vm
> virt-top
>
> is there some reason that qemu-system-ppc is considered a "Default"
> package? after all, there's a *pile* of qemu-system-<arch> files --
> arm, cris, mips, etc. what's so special about ppc? just curious.
There's kvm support on ppc ;-)
so of course, if you are installing it on a x86 box, it does not matter,
but I just didn't want to fill the comps file with ifarchs definitions.
(I don't even know if that is possible). Later on, I thought that just using
"kvm" and making qemu-system-x86 and qemu-system-ppc provide it conditionally,
would be a better alternative. But since the package is not that big, I left
it that way. Can change it upon request.
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