Source: linux-2.6 Severity: minor There was a package in Lenny, kvm-source, which contains kernel module for kvm subsystem and is built from package named kvm.
All modern kernels includes kvm modules. Kvm package is now transitional to qemu-kvm, which does not provide any kernel modules or packages like kvm-source. kvm-source package has been removed from squeeze. When kvm-source package is installed, it replaces kvm modules in current kernel with old, obsolete ones, so that current kvm userspace does not work anymore. But current kernel includes more recent kvm modules which works correctly even with old userspace. So kvm-source breaks current kernels. It breaks even lenny's kernel (2.6.26), which includes more recent kvm modules than in kvm-source_72 (from lenny), and even more - 2.6.26 received a few security fixes for kvm modules which are not present in kvm-source. The only solution to this I see is to include Conflicts: into kernel against kvm-source (unversioned). Note that it is not sufficient to add such conflicts: to qemu-kvm (userspace component), because one may have installed kvm-source without qemu-kvm, kvm-source broke the kernel module (replacing it with older and buggy one), and later qemu-kvm is installed on already broken system. Thanks! /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
