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

Wed Nov 16 13:00:02 CET 2011

On 16.11.2011 12:53, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
+> 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*.
+And providing it via 3rd party repo as fullfeatured is much better than 
+via official resources but limited. Is this also preventing? If someone 
+will need it, then will find information how to use GNS3 with Mageia.
+>> Regards,
+>> Buchan
+>
+
+