Bug 1378538

You're right, it is old. I propose we use the description from Fedora, which is:

Summary: QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator

%description
QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good
emulation speed by using dynamic translation. QEMU has two operating modes:

 * Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system (for
   example a PC), including a processor and various peripherials. It can be
   used to launch different Operating Systems without rebooting the PC or
   to debug system code.
 * User mode emulation. In this mode, QEMU can launch Linux processes compiled
   for one CPU on another CPU.

As QEMU requires no host kernel patches to run, it is safe and easy to use.

(In reply to Jeff Nelson from comment #2)
> You're right, it is old. I propose we use the description from Fedora, which
> is:
> 
> Summary: QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator
> 
> %description
> QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good
> emulation speed by using dynamic translation. QEMU has two operating modes:
> 
>  * Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system (for
>    example a PC), including a processor and various peripherials. It can be
>    used to launch different Operating Systems without rebooting the PC or
>    to debug system code.
>  * User mode emulation. In this mode, QEMU can launch Linux processes
> compiled
>    for one CPU on another CPU.
> 
> As QEMU requires no host kernel patches to run, it is safe and easy to use.

You pasted the RHEL description here. :-)

from rpm -qi qemu-system-x86

"""
Source RPM  : qemu-2.7.0-2.fc24.src.rpm
Summary     : QEMU system emulator for x86
Description :
QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good
emulation speed by using dynamic translation.

This package provides the system emulator for x86. When being run in a x86
machine that supports it, this package also provides the KVM virtualization
platform.
"""

bike-shedding: Shouldn't we sync with Fedora's summary and description?

Summary: QEMU system emulator for x86
...
%description
QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good
emulation speed by using dynamic translation.

This package provides the system emulator for x86. When being run in a x86
machine that supports it, this package also provides the KVM virtualization
platform.

(In reply to Danilo Cesar de Paula from comment #4)
> bike-shedding: Shouldn't we sync with Fedora's summary and description?
> 
> Summary: QEMU system emulator for x86
> ...
> %description
> QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good
> emulation speed by using dynamic translation.
> 
> This package provides the system emulator for x86. When being run in a x86
> machine that supports it, this package also provides the KVM virtualization
> platform.

The layout of QEMU packages in RHEL and Fedora is different (architectures, meta-packages, etc). So you can't keep them in sync.

Ok, so I'm using the first option that Ademar mentioned with a small modification:

Jeff suggested to keep using qemu-kvm in the package description as the QEMU is the upstream name and qemu-kvm is the name for the downstream package.

He also mentioned to use qemu-kvm-rhev for the packag in rhev. So:

===========
Summary: QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

%description:
qemu-kvm%{?pkgsuffix} is an open source virtualizer that provides hardware emulation for the KVM hypervisor. 

QEMU acts as a virtual machine monitor together with the KVM kernel modules, and emulates the hardware for a full system such as
a PC and its assocated peripherals.
============

Markus suggested to stick with QEMU or qemu-kvm due first suggestion makes a change from qemu-kvm to QEMU. So I'm reverting this and using qemu-kvm%{?pkgsuffix} instead.

Patch was posted today.

Fix included in qemu-kvm-rhev-2.8.0-3.el7

Check the differences in both Summary and Description fields to verify this bug, the visible change is in Summary field. 

See:

# rpm -qip qemu-kvm-rhev-2.6.0-27.el7/qemu-kvm-rhev-2.6.0-27.el7.x86_64.rpm 
Name        : qemu-kvm-rhev
Epoch       : 10
Version     : 2.6.0
Release     : 27.el7
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: (not installed)
Group       : Development/Tools
Size        : 10051817
License     : GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and BSD
Signature   : (none)
Source RPM  : qemu-kvm-rhev-2.6.0-27.el7.src.rpm
Build Date  : Fri 23 Sep 2016 09:36:32 PM CST
Build Host  : x86-034.build.eng.bos.redhat.com
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Vendor      : Red Hat, Inc.
URL         : http://www.qemu.org/
Summary     : QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator
Description :
qemu-kvm is an open source virtualizer that provides hardware emulation for
the KVM hypervisor. qemu-kvm acts as a virtual machine monitor together with
the KVM kernel modules, and emulates the hardware for a full system such as
a PC and its assocated peripherals.



# rpm -qip qemu-kvm-rhev-2.9.0-5.el7/qemu-kvm-rhev-2.9.0-5.el7.x86_64.rpm 
Name        : qemu-kvm-rhev
Epoch       : 10
Version     : 2.9.0
Release     : 5.el7
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: (not installed)
Group       : Development/Tools
Size        : 11773380
License     : GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and BSD
Signature   : (none)
Source RPM  : qemu-kvm-rhev-2.9.0-5.el7.src.rpm
Build Date  : Tue 16 May 2017 08:51:39 PM CST
Build Host  : x86-017.build.eng.bos.redhat.com
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Vendor      : Red Hat, Inc.
URL         : http://www.qemu.org/
Summary     : QEMU is a machine emulator and virtualizer
Description :
qemu-kvm-rhev is an open source virtualizer that provides hardware
emulation for the KVM hypervisor. qemu-kvm-rhev acts as a virtual
machine monitor together with the KVM kernel modules, and emulates the
hardware for a full system such as a PC and its associated peripherals.



Setting VERIFIED per above.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392