Package: kvm
Severity: normal
First of all, thanks for maintaining KVM!
The package description for KVM contains documentation on how to use the
package and if it's appropriate. The package description is for
*describing* the package not for documentation. In particular, I would
remove this part of the description:
For the best performance the processor must support hardware
virtualization, provided by AMD's SVM capability and Intel's VT. To
find out if your processor has the necessary support, do as follows:
* Make sure you run Linux 2.6.16 or newer for AMD processors, or Linux
2.6.15 for Intel processors. Older Linux versions do not report the
virtualization capabilities.
* Run this command in a shell: egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
If it prints anything, the processor provides hardware virtualization
support and is suitable for use with KVM.
Without hardware support, KVM falls back to the considerably slower
QEMU-based software virtualization. In this case, it makes more sense
to use the qemu package, possibly with the kqemu package for better
performance.
The recommended qemu package contains the the qemu-img program needed
to create virtual disk images as well as the script
/usr/sbin/qemu-make-debian-root, which uses debootstrap to build a
Debian disk image. See the man page for qemu-make-debian-root. The
suggested hal package is only used for automatically reporting the
system bios version and computer model when reporting bugs.
I noticed in #467266 that your package is missing a README. Perhaps this
information would be better there (or in a README.Debian) file.
Additionally, your description includes unsupported formatting including
a bulletted list which looks poor on pages like this one:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/kvm
Thanks in advance for your help!
Regards,
Mako
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Debian Release: lenny/sid
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
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