Bug 962325
| Summary: | gnome-boxes-3.8.1.2-1.fc19.armv7hl requires libvirt-daemon-kvm | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Pavel Holica <pholica> |
| Component: | gnome-boxes | Assignee: | Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 19 | CC: | berrange, cfergeau, dan, marcandre.lureau, zeenix |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | arm | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | gnome-boxes-3.8.3-1.fc19 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-06-01 03:13:56 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Pavel Holica
2013-05-13 08:17:40 UTC
Just thinking about it now, gnome-boxes shouldn't require this package on any arch, since it's not needed for its functionality (managing remote or local virtual machines). it's required when creating new VMs (at least for if you want them to have good performance). Hmm, kernel >= 3.8 and QEMU >= 1.5.0 will be able to support KVM on armv7. Not sure if QEMU 1.5.0 will get into F19 though. At least by Fedora 20 though we'll be able to have libvirt-daemon-kvm exist on ARM too. Yes, but for Fedora 19, this blocks Gnome installation in anaconda, which is default. Boxes should just make their dep on libvirt-daemon-kvm be conditional on x86 arch as a quick fix. (In reply to comment #5) > Boxes should just make their dep on libvirt-daemon-kvm be conditional on x86 > arch as a quick fix. Since Boxes doesn't really support ARM anyways, I think Boxes should simply be excluded from ARM builds for now. How it doesn't support arm? I haven't tried it on arm yet, but the project page says, that it's capable of doing more then managing local VMs (https://live.gnome.org/Boxes). I believe that it can be used same way as virt-manager to manage remote VMs, and I use it that way on HW without virtualization support. Hello, is there any update on this bug? Thanks. (In reply to Pavel Holica from comment #7) > How it doesn't support arm? I haven't tried it on arm yet, but the project > page says, that it's capable of doing more then managing local VMs > (https://live.gnome.org/Boxes). > > I believe that it can be used same way as virt-manager to manage remote VMs, > and I use it that way on HW without virtualization support. In theory it should be able to do that, in practice, the current UI and testing were pretty much centered around "easily create new VMs and manage these VMs". The UI to access remote VMs is really bad, it's not tested a lot, VM creation on ARM is untested, and probably needs libvirt work as well, ... For all these reasons, it's imo better not to build Boxes on non-x86/x86_64 arches for now. Testing/patches are very welcome to improve the !x86 support in Boxes though! I'll add this to the .spec if noone objects:
# While qemu/kvm may be available on more arch than x86, VM creation is very
# likely not to work as expected, and non-local VM management needs love to
# be a first class citizen in Boxes. For these reasons, it's better not to
# build Boxes on non-x86 for now
%if 0%{?fedora}
ExclusiveArch: %{ix86} x86_64
%endif
Thanks for response. I've installed it now and I'll give it a try :) gnome-boxes-3.8.2-3.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-boxes-3.8.2-3.fc19 Package gnome-boxes-3.8.2-3.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gnome-boxes-3.8.2-3.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-9004/gnome-boxes-3.8.2-3.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback). Adding the ExclusiveArch: x86-only tag is creating new problems for non-x86 arches where the last existing build (with wrong Requires for ARM) will be included in the repositories. It's not possible to exclude a package that already existed in a secondary arch with the current tools. Also the GNOME group in comps marks gnome-boxes as "required" causing broken deps again when we exclude gnome-boxes somehow. So the better solution is making just the Requires: libvirt-daemon-kvm depend on the qemu_kvm_arches variable and drop the ExclusiveArch in Fedora. gnome-boxes-3.8.2-4.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-boxes-3.8.2-4.fc19 gnome-boxes-3.8.2-5.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-boxes-3.8.2-5.fc19 gnome-boxes-3.8.3-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-boxes-3.8.3-1.fc19 gnome-boxes-3.8.3-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |