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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20111116/ebfb4023/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20111116/ebfb4023/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a3d1e6b74 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20111116/ebfb4023/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> + <head> + <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> + </head> + <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> + <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; + font-size: 12px;" lang="x-unicode">On 14.11.2011 14:53, Buchan + Milne wrote: + <br> + <blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> + <br> + <blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> + <blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> ( and + given the discussion + <br> + <br> + on ml, it should be soon ) + <br> + </blockquote> + When I ask the developers, they don't know if qemu will + include the + <br> + patch at all and when (now or after one year) and they + suggested to do + <br> + the openSUSE way (today the most recommended and full featured + Linux + <br> + distro for GNS3). + <br> + </blockquote> + [...] + <br> + <br> + <blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">OK. So if + gns3 can't be fixed for the stable - than should be removed + <br> + from the repos (for ISOs is to late). + <br> + <br> + If we don't provide qemu patch, then gns3 should be removed + from + <br> + Cauldron as well. + <br> + <br> + I believe removing GNS3 is better than keeping it broken and.. + irritate + <br> + people (I don't count the opinion of our quality). Later some + 3rd party + <br> + repos can provide GNS3 and its dependencies. + <br> + </blockquote> + You seem to imply that the only use of GNS3 is with this qemu + patch. + <br> + </blockquote> + It's possible to simulate and play without qemu. + (btw newer alpha release version supports in the same way + VirtualBox)<br> + <br> + It should be "Suggested" by GNS3, but then what is the idea of + suggesting qemu that isn't working at all? I simply don't know why + to distribute a program that provides support in GUI for something + that's not working. + <br> + <br> + People can try to waste their time and configure qemuwrapper with + our qemu... it's just a matter of time for a bugrequest on our + bugzilla. + <br> + <br> + In my opinion if we provide an application with so exposed + (visible) support for working with qemu and we don't provide qemu + itself then our quality of packages get lower. + <br> + <blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">But I used + GNS3 with just dynamips, and this issue of GNS3 not being usable + at + <br> + all due to missing dynamips can really be solved quite quickly + just by + <br> + shipping dynamips to updates. + <br> + </blockquote> + Yes. + <br> + <blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">But, it looks + like someone blindly imported gns3 and dynagen from Mandriva + <br> + without even understanding the use of these tools: + <br> + <br> + $ rpm -q --suggests dynagen + <br> + dynamips>= 0.2.8 + <br> + xterm + <br> + <br> + (dynamips isn't explicitly required to be installed on the host + with gns3 or + <br> + dynagen, as the hypervisor can be run on a different host than + dynagen/GNS3). + <br> + <br> + </blockquote> + In theory yes. + <br> + <blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Regards, + <br> + Buchan + <br> + </blockquote> + <br> + </div> + </body> +</html> |