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

Wed Nov 16 12:53:41 CET 2011

On 16.11.2011 06:44, Buchan Milne wrote:
+> On Wednesday, 16 November 2011 05:30:05 Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
+>> 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.
+>>
+>> 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.
+>>
+> Uh, because you can use GNS3 for a lot of things without qemu.
+>
+> I used it for simulating a 4-router network with just dynamips.
+>
+> So, either I don't understand what you are trying to achieve, or why you want
+> to *prevent* people from emulating routers with GNS3.
+If I do *import* dynamips into Mageia then I want to *prevent* people 
+from emulating? No, I want to distribute fullfeatured software, where 
+everything is *well-rounded* - and not *missing*/*broken*.
+> Regards,
+> Buchan
+
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