[Mageia-dev] qemu new upstream release (1.0-rc1) and should we move from qemu-kvm to qemu?

Wed Nov 16 04:32:12 CET 2011

On 14.11.2011 14:53, Buchan Milne wrote:
+>
+>>>    ( and given the discussion
+>>>
+>>> on ml, it should be soon )
+>> When I ask the developers, they don't know if qemu will include the
+>> patch at all and when (now or after one year) and they suggested to do
+>> the openSUSE way (today the most recommended and full featured Linux
+>> distro for GNS3).
+> [...]
+>
+>> OK. So if gns3 can't be fixed for the stable - than should be removed
+>> from the repos (for ISOs is to late).
+>>
+>> If we don't provide qemu patch, then gns3 should be removed from
+>> Cauldron as well.
+>>
+>> I believe removing GNS3 is better than keeping it broken and.. irritate
+>> people (I don't count the opinion of our quality). Later some 3rd party
+>> repos can provide GNS3 and its dependencies.
+> You seem to imply that the only use of GNS3 is with this qemu patch.
+It's possible to simulate and play without qemu. (btw newer alpha 
+release version supports in the same way VirtualBox)
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+> But I used GNS3 with just dynamips, and this issue of GNS3 not being 
+> usable at
+> all due to missing dynamips can really be solved quite quickly just by
+> shipping dynamips to updates.
+Yes.
+> But, it looks like someone blindly imported gns3 and dynagen from 
+> Mandriva
+> without even understanding the use of these tools:
+>
+> $ rpm -q --suggests dynagen
+> dynamips>= 0.2.8
+> xterm
+>
+> (dynamips isn't explicitly required to be installed on the host with 
+> gns3 or
+> dynagen, as the hypervisor can be run on a different host than 
+> dynagen/GNS3).
+>
+In theory yes.
+> Regards,
+> Buchan
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