[Bug 396721] [NEW] backport kvm-84 to hardy and intrepid

[Dustin Kirkland]

Public bug reported:

I have spent several months developing, testing, and stabilizing a
backport of Jaunty's kvm-84 to both Hardy and Intrepid.

Hardy shipped with kvm-62, and Intrepid with kvm-72.  While both of
these versions of kvm are suitable for some use cases, they both suffer
from some key design flaws.  Serious features are either missing, or
broken.  Most notably: smp and virtio.

Jaunty's kvm-84 is thoroughly more full featured, and in many ways, more
heavily tested.

In the course of creating this backport, I have made two public calls for testing (in my blog, #ubuntu-meeting, and on the ubuntu-server@ mailing list):
 * http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/03/ubuntu-server-kvm-call-for-testing.html
 * http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/06/kvm-84-backport-release-candidate.html

Packages have been provided for testing in the Ubuntu Virt PPA since March 2009, and have been refined considerably during the testing and release-candidate, per feedback from a healthy testing community:
 * https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-virt/+archive/ppa

At this point, I'm proposing this upload to hardy-backports and
intrepid-backports.  I'm also marking two other similar bugs duplicates
of this one, as it should solve both of those user's requests (Bug
#252257, Bug #299183).

:-Dustin

** Affects: hardy-backports
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: intrepid-backports
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: In Progress

** Also affects: intrepid-backports
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: hardy-backports
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: intrepid-backports
       Status: New => In Progress

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backport kvm-84 to hardy and intrepid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396721
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