Hi, Thanks for the idea.
Somehow I'm not really sure about this. First of all, the files in /usr/share/etherboot are currently gzipped? Can qemu and kvm use them, or do the system administrator has to ungzip them before? Why the images for kvm/qemu, why not for vmware/virtualbox/whatnot? What is the problem with depending on the whole package? Too big? 32Mb? Is it too big on a system, where you run virtual machines with kvm (which only runs on a recent hardware)? And if the answer is still go ahead, then why not the all-in-one.iso.gz, which is 1Mb and has all major network cards, so probably can be used with all of the virtualization products? I'm open to discussion, but not sure about creating another binary package in the archive. Nowadays everyone is switching to some pxe solution anyway, instead of using etherboot... Can't kvm/qemu can just boot with pxe as if pxe support would have been built into the virtual hardware? Gergely On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:12:10 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianb...@freegeek.org> writes: > Package: etherboot > Version: 5.4.3+dfsg-0.2 > Severity: wishlist > > please consider packaging etherboot with a separate package for roms useful to > qemu or kvm. > > currently, qemu (and maybe kvm?) ship roms by adding etherboot as a > build-depends and copying the roms into the package, but this makes it hard to > properly track which source package the etherboot roms actually came from. > > it would be better if a package were available that could use the roms > directly. a separate package that included uncompressed versions of the > following binaries would be most useful: > > /usr/share/etherboot/e1000-82540em.rom > /usr/share/etherboot/ne.rom > /usr/share/etherboot/pcnet32.rom > /usr/share/etherboot/rtl8139.rom > > most other roms aren't really useful to qemu/kvm, so i don't see much reason > to > split those out. > > thanks! > > live well, > vagrant > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 5.0.3 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (102, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > etherboot depends on no packages. > > Versions of packages etherboot recommends: > ii mknbi 1.4.4-1.1 Create tagged images for > Etherboot > > etherboot suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
