Package: kvm
Version: 60+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
kvm always creates snapshots (-snapshot option) in /tmp. This is a
problem if partition holding /tmp is not big enough to hold the
snapshots.
Attached is a patch from Debian qemu package (if set, $TMPDIR is used
instead of /tmp).
-- Package-specific info:
/proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 9
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 600.000
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe up est tm2
bogomips : 1196.96
clflush size : 64
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (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
Versions of packages kvm depends on:
ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups
ii bridge-utils 1.4-1 Utilities for configuring the Linu
ii iproute 20080108-1 Professional tools to control the
ii libasound2 1.0.16-1 ALSA library
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgnutls13 2.0.4-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-2 Simple DirectMedia Layer
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 kvm recommends:
ii kvm-source 60+dfsg-1 Source for the KVM driver
ii linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 2.6.22-6.lenny1 Linux 2.6.22 image on PPro/Celeron
ii qemu 0.9.1-1 fast processor emulator
ii vde2 2.2.0-pre2-1 Virtual Distributed Ethernet
-- no debconf information
Index: block.c
===================================================================
--- block.c.orig 2008-01-28 02:21:48.000000000 +0100
+++ block.c 2008-01-28 02:22:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -191,8 +191,12 @@
void get_tmp_filename(char *filename, int size)
{
int fd;
+ char *tmpdir;
/* XXX: race condition possible */
- pstrcpy(filename, size, "/tmp/vl.XXXXXX");
+ tmpdir = getenv("TMPDIR");
+ if (!tmpdir)
+ tmpdir = "/tmp";
+ snprintf(filename, size, "%s/vl.XXXXXX", tmpdir);
fd = mkstemp(filename);
close(fd);
}
