Bug 271653 – app-emulation/kvm-88 version bump

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Markus Hauschild 2009-05-29 10:56:32 UTC]

kvm-86 has been released over a week ago see http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/ChangeLog

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2009-05-29 12:59:11 UTC]

I'm working on it, but it's horribly broken at the moment, and I have yet to figure out why.

[Comment 2 Alexander Stein 2009-05-30 08:50:52 UTC]

Please note, that this version doesn't compile, if you enabled CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU or CONFIG_IOMMU_API (I'm not sure) in a pre 2.6.30 kernel. See also http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg15455.html for details. Also a patch is included in the thread which seems to be applied upstream.

[Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2009-05-30 21:21:36 UTC]

There's also a few known issues with the libvirt stack and this version. So I'm all for holding this back a few days until I can patch up libvirt and friends.

[Comment 4 RB 2009-06-02 13:58:41 UTC]

The problem is that they've shuffled everything around (also the cause of bug #271419).  Now what was the root of the tarball is in kvm/ and what was in qemu/ is in the root.  To make matters worse, they're no longer avoiding collisions with QEMU, so unless you go through and re-name the binaries and all, it will not coexist peacefully with qemu.

[Comment 5 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2009-06-02 14:27:35 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> The problem is that they've shuffled everything around (also the cause of bug
> #271419).  Now what was the root of the tarball is in kvm/ and what was in
> qemu/ is in the root.  To make matters worse, they're no longer avoiding
> collisions with QEMU, so unless you go through and re-name the binaries and
> all, it will not coexist peacefully with qemu.
> 

They never avoided collision with qemu. The tweaks to rename everything to kvm- instead of qemu- were originally written by Dan (dang) and I. Debian, Ubuntu and a few other distros adopted our tweaks.

[Comment 6 RB 2009-06-02 14:36:46 UTC]

Maybe next time I'll read the patches instead of skimming the ebuild (which in retrospect also makes your changes evident).  Was looking at submitting changes for 86 to incorporate SuSE's OSX changes, but that's another bug.

[Comment 7 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2009-06-02 15:08:00 UTC]

Worse than the re-org, it's now using the qemu build system exclusively, rather than wrapping with the kvm build system.  I'm guessing this is the cause of my problems (no console, no /sbin/init on any of my VMs), but I'm not sure yet, and I haven't had a chance to pursue it.

[Comment 8 Vlad 2009-06-19 14:04:59 UTC]

Any (preferably good) news?

[Comment 9 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2009-06-22 14:35:33 UTC]

I'm currently away from Gentoo.  I'll be back July 1.  So no news at this point.

[Comment 10 Tais P. Hansen 2009-06-25 16:08:42 UTC]

FYI kvm-87 released.

[Comment 11 Elias Probst 2009-07-10 08:12:36 UTC]

Changing bug summary - kvm-87 was released 10 days ago.

[Comment 12 masc 2009-07-12 18:46:34 UTC]

kvm-88 is out..

[Comment 13 Markus Hauschild 2009-07-20 14:04:25 UTC]

updated summary

[Comment 14 dacook 2009-07-20 15:42:57 UTC]

Created attachment 198619 [details, diff]
kvm-88 patch

Patch against kvm-85-r2 to bring it up to 88.  This addresses the following bits:
 - updates kvm-patches for 88 (drops legacy ones, adds one)
 - Cleans up some ebuild semantics
 - Addresses the subdirectory (qemu/kvm v. kvm/qemu) switch
 - Disables automagic Xen support due to Qemu configure bug
 - Fixes bug 271419: renames qemu-io
 - Fixes bug 273683: 'make -j' now works, openbios blobs irrelevant for KVM (x86-only) so removed.
 - Knee-jerk fix to bug 273383

[Comment 15 dacook 2009-07-20 15:44:08 UTC]

Created attachment 198620 [details]
kvm-patches-20090714

Tarball for new patchset

[Comment 16 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2009-07-21 18:30:54 UTC]

Bumped to 88.  Thanks, dacook, for the work.