Your message dated Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:47:07 +0000
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and subject line Package kvm has been removed from Debian
has caused the Debian Bug report #467043,
regarding New kvm causes Windows activation to trigger on activated VM - now
hardware ids?
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
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467043: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467043
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Package: qemu
Version: 0.9.1-1
Severity: important
I know people don't really care about Windows or Microsoft here, but
some of us still require to run Windows for some tasks (like VS). qemu
works with Windows XP very nicely. It is extremely good for testing as
well as well. For example, I had the following,
1. install one XP instance
2. activate it
3. copy it to create a VM for some application, testing, etc.
This worked beautifully until the recent changes in qemu renamed all
hardware! For example, now the CPU is identified as "QEMU Virtual CPU
version 0.9.0-cvs" instead of old one. This completely breaks Window
activation of my currently installed VM.
The solution as I see it is to,
* add a switch to qemu to allow for old hardware ids.
* have a *consistent* virtual names for the future instead of the
"every version of qemu gets a new CPU version"
Or just reverting to the old way of identifying the machine would be
good enough.
- Adam
PS. The importance of this bug is severity grave for all unfortunate
Windows users out there that prefer to running Windows in a VM than natively!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages qemu depends on:
ii bochsbios 2.3.6-2 BIOS for the Bochs emulator
ii libasound2 1.0.15-3 ALSA library
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgnutls13 2.0.4-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080119-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-1 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii openbios-sparc 1.0~alpha2+20080106-2 SPARC Open Firmware
ii openhackware 0.4.1-3 OpenFirmware emulator for PowerPC
ii proll 18-3 JavaStation PROM 2.x compatible re
ii vgabios 0.6a-3 VGA BIOS software for the Bochs an
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages qemu recommends:
ii debootstrap 1.0.8 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii sharutils 1:4.6.3-1 shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode
ii vde2 2.1.6+r154-1+b1 Virtual Distributed Ethernet
-- no debconf information
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Version: 85+dfsg-4.1+rm
You filled the bug http://bugs.debian.org/467043 in Debian BTS
against the package kvm. I'm closing it at *unstable*, but it will
remain open for older distributions.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/562620. That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
--
Marco Rodrigues
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