Error in linux-image-virtual package description (mentions RT)

[Bernard Drapeau]

Binary package hint: linux-image-virtual

The actual package description describes "rt" Linux.

Current package description:

Real time Linux kernel image
This package will always depend on the latest rt kernel image
available.

Please rewrite the package desciption to this:

Virtual Linux kernel image
This package will always depend on the latest Virtual kernel image
available.

What is Virtual Linux? Please explain.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 2 14:25:06 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-11-386 i686

[TerryG (tgalati4)]

Thanks for your submission.

Marking as Confirmed. Need more authoritative description for virtual kernel. Is this a kernel that acts as a host to multiple virtual machines? Or is this a virtual kernel that resides as one of many virtual machines managed by a host operating system.

[cablop (cablop)]

Is this kernel intended to be used in a linux running INside a Virtual Machine? (guest)
Or is intended to be used in a linux hosting virtual machines? (host)

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

This is not a bug in the linux-meta package, moving to the linux package.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Triaged a while ago but has not had any updated comments for quite some time. Please let us know if this issue remains in the current Ubuntu release, http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . If the issue remains, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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[cablop (cablop)]

yes, that useless description remains "This package will always depend on the latest kernel image available for virtual machines."

What is this kernel for?

linux hosting virtual machines?
guest linux running in linux host?
kernel optimized for virtual machines?
kernel intended for parallel virtualization?

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Although the description may not be as clear as some would like, the original bug was filed because it was wrong. The package description no longer refers to the "latest rt kernel", but does instead refer to:

Complete Linux kernel for virtual machines
This package will always depend on the latest complete Linux kernel available
for virtual machines.