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

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 03:54:38AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> 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:

I feel your pain and building ESX from a seprate source package should
be possible. It's just that I don't have the time and energy to
support this. I'm lagging on literally dozens of open issues and
so I don't want to add any proprietary stuff to that set. As I said:
if anybody wants to pick it up, you're very welcome and I'm happy to
put this under pkg-libvirt and help out here and there.
Cheers,
 -- Guido