Obviously what needs to happen is for the maintainer of ubuntu-xen- desktop to get enough time and leisure to take on this problem. At least either remove the dependency on xenman (convirt) or create a package for it.
However, there apparently *is* no maintainer who feels responsible for this (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/ubuntu-xen-desktop lists Ubuntu MOTU developers as maintainers). Which I find troubling, seeing that Ubuntu 8.04 put a lot of emphasis on virtualisation and deployment of virtual machines, especially for "home users". I understand that KVM is the Ubuntu-way to go but to ignore Xen, the older, more mature and very much more thoroughly tested and more widely deployed solution definitely seems wrong. I don't know if this is a political decision or just the more likely case of too little manpower but it certainly makes Ubuntu, and particularly the LTS release of 8.04 one of the worst choices for a Xen- based virtualisation setup. See related entries like bug #224340 or bug #218126 (which is supposed to be fixed but apparently issues remain). It is disappointing to say the least. -- hardy: ubuntu-xen-desktop ist missing xenman and cannot be installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215558 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
