Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: Improve make deb

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 15:40 +0000, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> Il 26/02/2013 16:12, Ian Campbell ha scritto:
> > On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 15:03 +0000, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> >> @Ian or Stefano:
> >> About use upstream qemu from debian package on xen debian package:
> >> Do I need to only remove the build (similar to seabios packaged patch)
> >> or may I also need to patch libxl/xm?
> > Probably you'd need to patch libxl (but not xm) too.
> >
> > On my todo list I have an action to make the configure script understand
> > --with-system-qemu=PATH, which would disable the qemu-xen build and
> > cause libxl to use $PATH (default /usr/bin/qemu?) instead
> > of /usr/lib/xen/bin/blah. If someone else were to get there first that
> > would be awesome!
> >
> > ./configure --(enable|disable)-qemu-traditional (i.e. just turn the
> > build off and on) would be quite useful too I think. As would making
> > libxl handle the absence of either a little more gracefully.
> >
> > Ian.
> >
> Thanks for the info, your idea for upstream xen instead is better than 
> mine on debian patches.
> Unfortunately for the moment I not have sufficent time to do this task.

No worries, it'll sit on my list until I get to it ;-)

> The default qemu probably is good /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64, tested 
> and full working on debian (not know about different distros), 
> /usr/bin/qemu link to i386 which has some bugs (for example one or more 
> important/critical with spice, that seem present also in other distros).
> Following your indication it would be useful to add also the options to 
> use system seabios for example --with-system-seabios=PATH, which is 
> faster to do.

Yes, that would be useful too. Sigh, that's another entry on the TODO
list ;-)

Ian.


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