[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536175: Bug#536176: xen-utils-3.4: trying xen-3.4 once breaks xen-3.2 (?)

[Thomas Goirand]

Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:27:52PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> For example Fedora's Xen 3.4.0 source RPM contains the xen-3.4.0.tar.gz
>> release tarball, and they build the included ioemu, just like in earlier Xen
>> releases. That is the correct way to do it.
> 
> If you think this is the correct way, go with Fedora.
> 
> I refuse to maintain the security-hog called qemu for the next stable
> release, so it can only come from a different source package.

What's your suggestion? What source package? Could the "normal" package
"qemu" be used for the job, or is there too many patches? Should a
different source package be built out of the the xen-3.4.0.tar.gz just
for qemu?

While I understand that you don't want to maintain it (and you are
giving a good reason for it), a big number of users will still need HVM
support in Xen, and wont understand why Debian doesn't do it. A solution
has to be found, and it's unclear what you are suggesting here.

Thanks for your work on the Xen packaging,
Regards,

Thomas