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Bug 409005 - sys-apps/seabios should be able to be installed alongside app-emulation/qemu
Summary: sys-apps/seabios should be able to be installed alongside app-emulation/qemu
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal QA
Assignee: Doug Goldstein (RETIRED)
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Keywords: QAbaddep
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Blocks: 409007
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Reported: 2012-03-20 12:56 UTC by Richard Yao (RETIRED)
Modified: 2012-03-21 01:01 UTC (History)
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Description Richard Yao (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-03-20 12:56:09 UTC 
apps/seabios-1.6.3 does not permit itself to be installed alongside app-emulation/qemu. However, app-emulation/qemu-1.0.1 installs bios.bin in /usr/share/qemu/bios.bin while sys-apps/seabios-1.6.3 installs bios.bin in /usr/share/seabios/bios.bin.

I see no reason why we should disallow the two from being installed alongside one another.
Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-03-20 20:54:41 UTC 
They're not meant to be parallel installable. The fix is to kill app-emulation/qemu from the tree, or fix app-emulation to use seabios.
Comment 2 Luca Barbato gentoo-dev 2012-03-20 23:08:33 UTC 
qemu exists mostly because qemu-kvm isn't working properly for a number of reasons. I updated qemu-user since that is the main faulty/untested part in qemu-kvm but I'm afraid there are other targets that work better with qemu than qemu-kvm.
Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-03-21 01:01:54 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> qemu exists mostly because qemu-kvm isn't working properly for a number of
> reasons. I updated qemu-user since that is the main faulty/untested part in
> qemu-kvm but I'm afraid there are other targets that work better with qemu
> than qemu-kvm.

If you can name specifics please do and open bugs. Otherwise this is all speculation and is untrue as of 1.0. Major distros ship qemu-kvm as their qemu.