-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael,
You states that "your package embeds source code from both qemu and kvm". This is wrong. Kvm *is* qemu, just another variant of it, modifications to qemu to support native CPU execution on CPUs with virtualization extensions. The two projects, while very close to each other, are separate. Kvm pushes changes back to qemu, but currently acts like "staging area" for the kvm-related features, before they're pushed to qemu. The end goal is to have only one project, qemu. But as of now, it isn't the case. So we've 3 choices in Debian: a) do not provide kvm(*) at all. This is wrong, since the project is very useful (qemu in its current form does not work as well). Note that first goal of Debian is its users. b) do not provide qemu but package only kvm. This does not work right, since kvm version does not care that much about other architectures, focusing only on kvm- related features and often breaking other things, including running on x86 without kvm enabled. Yes that's bugs, but they're of lower priority for kvm. c) package both and wait till either the two projects merges or when b) will be more appropriate than now. (*) By "kvm" here and everywhere I mean either "kvm" or "qemu-kvm" which is the same thing but one is development snapshots and another is stable series. I think we're doing the best thing possible at this time -- providing both and letting the user to choose which one works best for him: if he wants native virtualisation here's kvm, if he wants to emulate other architecture, it's qemu. But in any way, saying that the project "embeds both qemu and kvm" is wrong, since, again, kvm *is* qemu. Thanks. /mjt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQECAAYFAks7zA0ACgkQUlPFrXTwyDhsVQP8DNAcJmwD9LPtunvioCuamQog 5e8inrRzj/zLaXlsb2SsV2Np2Em35Fv9laznO7JmkTlCfsPjAExRzf1hlmCdBD1r zGhgtmQJLgBfE+CThHjvUN5QJg2t3La7Fg7bPOcTxuc/cOx/Ff+nrYpyuI+9ISYL /Q5QW0PpzVcmIkeVDXU= =G/Z6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
