Bug 509532

Summary:	Move /usr/bin/qemu-kvm into the qemu-kvm package
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
Component:	qemu	Assignee:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	high
Version:	rawhide	CC:	dwmw2, gcosta, itamar, jaswinder, markmc, peljasz, virt-maint
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Description Mark McLoughlin 2009-07-03 10:46:51 UTC

There's no reason for qemu-kvm to be a completely empty package, it makes perfect sense for it to contain /usr/bin/qemu-kvm.

It should still require qemu-system-x86 for the BIOS symlinks

Comment 3 Mark McLoughlin 2009-09-04 07:46:25 UTC

*** Bug 518718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Mark McLoughlin 2009-09-14 14:17:39 UTC

Okay, what I'm going to do is move /usr/bin/qemu-kvm, kvm.modules and 80-kvm.rules into the qemu-kvm package

The %post scriptlet to run kvm.modules and the kvm Provides/Obsoletes will also be moved

The obvious concern is that if people only have qemu-system-x86 installed and update, they lose /usr/bin/qemu-kvm

However, since we've always had qemu-kvm in comps, I expect it will only affect a small number of people and I think it's okay to make this change.

Also, note that the likes of libguestfs explicitly requires qemu-kvm, rather than qemu-system-x86

Comment 5 Mark McLoughlin 2009-09-14 14:58:13 UTC

danpb gives a good reason to not do this, basically that the qemu-kvm sub-package will go away eventually when we start using stock upstream qemu instead of the qemu-kvm fork

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-September/msg00045.html

If it wasn't for the fact that comps won't pull in qemu-system-x86 if we just have Provides: qemu-kvm, we wouldn't have this sub-package at all

Also, qemu-kvm is properly merged upstream, we might re-name this sub-package to qemu-system, meaning "the appropriate qemu-system-* package for this architecture"