Please backport libvirt-bin

[Jan Ivar Pladsen]

libvirt-bin in Hardy is 0.4.0-2ubuntu8

libvirt-bin in Intrepid is 0.4.4-3ubuntu2

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

What is the justification for this backport? Backporting libraries, especially ones with as many rdepends as libvirt shouldn't be done unless there is some must have feature in the new libvirt which doesn't seem to be the case.

I'm marking this won't fix. Please reopen this bug if you feel that this is incorrect.

[jseabra (jseabra)]

Im using ubuntu 8.04.1 and I'm running virtual machines in it.
My problem is that i need to pass through to the guest USB devices attached to the host.
This can be acomplished using the hostdev element in the xml file, however this is only supported in libvirt since after 0.4.4
Installing the latest libvirt version by hand has failed and I really dont want to mess up with the server.

Can you please backport this?

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

Given that we can't backport just the binaries and not the library, and I am not willing to risk the regressions, I am remarking this WONTFIX.

[jseabra (jseabra)]

Ok
So i made a wrapper to solve my problem that will execute the options I want on the selected vm.

The solution was to rename kvm to kvm.original and create a kvm bash script like this:

#!/bin/bash
ARGV1="$@"
ARGV2="-M pc -m 512 -smp 1 -monitor pty -no-acpi -drive file=/home/virt-images/WindowsXP.qcow,if=ide,boot=on -drive file=/dev/cdrom,if=ide,media=cdrom -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:56:c5:48,vlan=0 -net tap,ifname=,script=,vlan=0 -usb -vnc 0.0.0.0:0"

if [ "$ARGV1" == "$ARGV2" ]
 then
 exec /usr/bin/kvm.original $@ -usbdevice host:0529:001
fi
exec /usr/bin/kvm.original $@

Hope this helps someone.

Thanks anyway