Bug#685618: d-i: do not install mpt-status on vmware hardware

2012-10-25 Thread Christopher Odenbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I can confirm the PCI subsystem id of 15ad:1976 on current VMware virtual machines: root@kastner[~]# lspci -vvvnn | grep LSI 00:10.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI

Bug#685618: d-i: do not install mpt-status on vmware hardware

2012-08-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Hi, please do not install mpt-status automatically if the hardware suggests that the installer is running in a virtualized environment. For vmware something like lspci | grep -i vmware should be sufficient, not sure if that works for other solutions.

Bug#685618: d-i: do not install mpt-status on vmware hardware

2012-08-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Bernd Zeimetz (be...@bzed.de): Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Hi, please do not install mpt-status automatically if the hardware suggests that the installer is running in a virtualized environment. For vmware something like lspci | grep -i vmware should be sufficient,

Bug#685618: d-i: do not install mpt-status on vmware hardware

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 22.08.2012 19:59, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Hi, please do not install mpt-status automatically if the hardware suggests What's wrong with mpt-status? /mjt that the installer is running in a virtualized environment. For vmware something like

Bug#685618: d-i: do not install mpt-status on vmware hardware

2012-08-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
reassign 685618 discover-data merge 618572 685618 thanks On 08/22/2012 07:00 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Bernd Zeimetz (be...@bzed.de): Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Hi, please do not install mpt-status automatically if the hardware suggests that the installer is

Bug#685618: d-i: do not install mpt-status on vmware hardware

2012-08-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/22/2012 07:43 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: On 22.08.2012 19:59, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Hi, please do not install mpt-status automatically if the hardware suggests What's wrong with mpt-status? Did you read the two bug reports at all? I assume

Bug#685618: d-i: do not install mpt-status on vmware hardware

2012-08-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 08:49:23PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Did you read the two bug reports at all? I assume not, otherwise you would not be asking. I don't want to receive emails from mpt-status, telling me that my raid is broken, if there is no raid at all. Also I do not want to waste ram

Bug#685618: d-i: do not install mpt-status on vmware hardware

2012-08-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/22/2012 09:18 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 08:49:23PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Did you read the two bug reports at all? I assume not, otherwise you would not be asking. I don't want to receive emails from mpt-status, telling me that my raid is broken, if there

Bug#685618: d-i: do not install mpt-status on vmware hardware

2012-08-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:11:24PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: No, I'm using this raid controller, but it just provides an emulation with access to scsi disks and nothing you would expect from a raid comtroller. Especially you can't ask it for the health of its raid set. I think last time I

Bug#685618: d-i: do not install mpt-status on vmware hardware

2012-08-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/22/2012 10:34 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I think discover is able to handle subsystem-vendor/device ids, both are 0x for vmware controllers. At least for the first one I checked. So excluding it should be possible. Hmm, according to http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1000/0030