backport kvm-84 to hardy and intrepid
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardy Backports |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Michael Casadevall | ||
| Intrepid Ibex Backports |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Michael Casadevall | ||
Bug Description
I have spent several months developing, testing, and stabilizing a backport of Jaunty's kvm-84 to both Hardy and Intrepid.
Hardy shipped with kvm-62, and Intrepid with kvm-72. While both of these versions of kvm are suitable for some use cases, they both suffer from some key design flaws. Serious features are either missing, or broken. Most notably: smp and virtio.
Jaunty's kvm-84 is thoroughly more full featured, and in many ways, more heavily tested.
In the course of creating this backport, I have made two public calls for testing (in my blog, #ubuntu-meeting, and on the ubuntu-server@ mailing list):
* http://
* http://
Packages have been provided for testing in the Ubuntu Virt PPA since March 2009, and have been refined considerably during the testing and release-candidate, per feedback from a healthy testing community:
* https:/
At this point, I'm proposing this upload to hardy-backports and intrepid-backports. I'm also marking two other similar bugs duplicates of this one, as it should solve both of those user's requests (Bug #252257, Bug #299183).
:-Dustin
Related branches
| Changed in hardy-backports: | |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| Changed in intrepid-backports: | |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote | #1 |
| Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote | #2 |
| Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in hardy-backports: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | In Progress → New |
| Changed in intrepid-backports: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | In Progress → New |
| Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote | #4 |
| Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote | #5 |
| Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote | #6 |
| Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) wrote | #7 |
| Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) wrote | #8 |
| Changed in intrepid-backports: | |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote | #9 |
| Yann Hamon (yannh) wrote | #10 |
| Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote | #11 |
| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote | #12 |
| Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote Re: [Bug 396721] Re: backport kvm-84 to hardy and intrepid | #13 |
| Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote | #14 |
| Changed in intrepid-backports: | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
| Changed in hardy-backports: | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote | #15 |
| Changed in hardy-backports: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Full binary and source packages available in the PPA listed above.
Here, I'm attaching the debdiff between the package in jaunty-proposed (sru pending) and the package I plan to upload to -backports, for your review.
Changes between jaunty-proposed and the -backports package:
* depend on a debhelper available in hardy
* drop build depends on pulse audio, for hardy
* add version'd depend on kvm-source (to use this backported kvm userspace, the user must also use the dkms-built kvm-source kvm kernel module)
* drop configure-
:-Dustin