[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#602807: libvirt: Support esx hypervisor

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
>It would if these are RC bugs like security issues or daemon crashes.

Don't we have packages that explicitly exclude such support or that
simply never went from sid to testing?
If compiling the VMware driver doesn't change the rest of libvirt, then
one could possibly simply place it in it's own package, add a note for
debian-security-support to be displayed that it is not security
supported (like webkit, chromium and others), add a bug that basically
says "don't move to testing until someone is willing to support this"
and perhaps add some lines to have reportbug told that people should not
report issues when they use the vmware module.


>I'm not planning to install ESX for that at home[1].
Hell,... who would ^^ But unfortunately I have to work with their LRZ
(lrz.de) infrastructure at work - and Germany's leading super computing
centre (well perhaps together with our friends in Jülich) put most of
their bets on proprietary software in recent years - "it's simply
better" - isn't it ;-) ... and you have million dollar contracts with
companies to give you support, whose people usually have no clue either
D:

Cheers,
Chris.


btw: I've seen that ubuntu enabled the vbox backend
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1103721) and
they don't seem to have much troubles with it,... would that be
something for the Debian package as well?
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