Virtualization comps group in f11

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Tue Apr 28 00:13:38 UTC 2009


On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:07:07 -0300
Glauber Costa <glommer at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:23:20AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Sunday, April 26 2009, Kevin Fenzi said:
> > > - Is there a unexpected yum behavior here? Or is a virtual
> > > provides not allowed in a comps group?
> > 
> > The list of package names in groups of the  comps file are just
> > that, package names.  Provides, filenames, etc are not allowed[1]
> this is my bad then. I believe it were perfectly valid.
> 
> Formerly, we were installing qemu-system-x86 and qemu-system-ppc, to
> allow for virtualization in both platforms we support kvm. But then
> some users were confused about system-ppc being installed in x86...
> 
> We can go back to this scheme if it is better.

Personally, I think just installing qemu is probibly fine. 

You could do as notting suggests and revive a qemu-kvm package, but
thats seems pretty late for F11. 

Can someone modify comps at least so it works for F11? :) 

kevin

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