[pve-devel] [PATCH RFC qemu-kvm 1/1] Provides a virtual package qemu-system-x86

[Wolfgang Bumiller]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:26:46AM +0200, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> Mainly to allow libguestfs and associated tools to work with our qemu binary.
> 
> libguestfs tests at run timethe output of qemu -help and qemu -device ?
> to detect which features it can use, so it should not
> depend on which configure flags were used when compiling our qemu binary.
> ---
>  debian/control            | 4 ++--
>  debian/pve-qemu-kvm.links | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 debian/pve-qemu-kvm.links
> 
> diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
> index ecf65c2..591cb61 100644
> --- a/debian/control
> +++ b/debian/control
> @@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
>   numactl,
>   libjemalloc1,
>   libjpeg62-turbo
> -Conflicts: qemu, qemu-kvm, qemu-utils, kvm, pve-kvm, pve-qemu-kvm-2.6.18
> -Provides: qemu-utils
> +Conflicts: qemu, qemu-kvm, qemu-utils, qemu-system-x86, kvm, pve-kvm, pve-qemu-kvm-2.6.18
> +Provides: qemu-utils, qemu-system-x86

To provide qemu-system-x86 we'd need to also ship a
/usr/bin/qemu-system-i386 (which is not the same as qemu-system-x86_64).

>  Replaces: pve-kvm, pve-qemu-kvm-2.6.18, qemu-utils
>  Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware
>   Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual PCs, each running unmodified Linux or
> diff --git a/debian/pve-qemu-kvm.links b/debian/pve-qemu-kvm.links
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..8e769d8
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/debian/pve-qemu-kvm.links
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +/usr/bin/kvm /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64

I'd rather have the rules file updated to not rename the binary and
instead make /usr/bin/kvm the symlink (also from within the rules file
since it depends on $(ARCH) there (and amd64 would have to be translated
to x86_64...)).

> -- 
> 2.11.0