Am Samstag 09 Januar 2010 schrieb Simon Boulay:
On 01/09/2010 09:09 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Am Samstag 09 Januar 2010 schrieb Dan McGee:
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Tobias Powalowski<t.powa@gmx.de> wrote:
Yes will change the install message.
Yes there is no mention in the changelogs, really strange. greetings tpowa
Ok like this? echo ">>> Since kernel 2.6.29:" echo ">>> Qemu package now provides standard qemu with kvm enabled." echo "" echo ">>> PLEASE READ FOR KVM USAGE!" echo ">>> Load the correct KVM module, you will need a KVM capable CPU!" echo ">>> Add yourself to the group 'kvm'." echo ">>> Use 'qemu --enable-kvm' to use KVM." echo "" echo "With the release of qemu and qemu-kvm 0.12.X, the kqemu kernel module" echo "is no longer supported and will be removed from the repositories. You" echo "can safely uninstall it from your system."
Can we put some vercmp checks around messages like this? That way people only have to see them once (when they upgrade the first time to a 0.12.x version for the second message). The first message should really be a post_install message.
And with all that said, why are there two packages in extra if "qemu package now provides standard qemu with kvm enabled"?
-Dan
Yes sure i can add those vercmp stuff. qemu and qemu-kvm is different. qemu-kvm is only for kvm while qemu provides much more machines to emulate.
I'm not sure about that. Both seems to share the same code for machine emulation; only the kvm stuff is different. In fedora 12, they build kvm and qemu-system-xxx from qemu-kvm 0.11. But I don't know how this will evolve in the future. If qemu and qemu-kvm are used for different purposes, one may need to install both apps side by side but that's not possible in archlinux. Why? qemu is for those who need more different emulation types. qemu-kvm is only for 86 emulation with kvm hardware support. Both differ in files you would need to hack bios file destination etc. I don't see any need to install both at the same time.
greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org