Virtualization comps group in f11

Rudolf Kastl che666 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 16:45:37 UTC 2009


2009/4/27 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 08:52:40PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> A user on #fedora noted that they installed the Virtualization group,
>> but couldn't get any vm's to install or work.
>>
>> We tracked it down to them not having qemu installed.
>>
>> Looks like the f11 comps file still lists 'qemu-kvm' in the
>> Virtualization group, and not any of the qemu packages. ;(
>> Even tho there is a Provides: qemu-kvm in qemu-system-x86, groupinstall
>> doesn't seem to pull it in.
>>
>> - Is there a unexpected yum behavior here? Or is a virtual provides not
>>   allowed in a comps group?
>>
>> - Should we just change the 'qemu-kvm' to 'qemu' in the f11-comps?
>
> There's two options, we can default to installing the whoile of QEMU
> which includes all arch emulators and KVM (eg, the qemu RPM), or
> default to just the x86 emulators (which includes KVM, but only if
> non an x86 host - we qemu-system-x86 RPM).   I think its probably
> worth going for 'qemu-system-x86'  in comps, because the non-x86
> archs are not really used very much and quite alot less stable.

they use up a really small amount of space for alot additional
functionality. i think it would be great to showoff there.

kind regards,
Rudolf Kastl

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