Pre-build kqemu modules

[Stefano Rivera]

Why do we need kqemu-source. We can't modules be pre-build, or even better, included in the kernel packages?

[xtknight (xt-knight)]

I'm not sure, actually. KQEMU used to be propriety but it is now under the GPL license, so that would be a possibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU

[lefty.crupps (eljefedelito)]

Yes, please! If our community wants to spread Free, Open Source software (and we do, right?), this should be as easy to install (or more so!) than VMWare Player.

A GUI would be great too but I don't know of any...

[lefty.crupps (eljefedelito)]

except this one!
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/QtEmu?content=50780
which has an expected update soon...

here is an older one, but it requires KDE3, which won't be around forever :)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kqemu/

these two each require Kommander, which I have problems with when my fonts are non-standard:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KQEmu?content=19407
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KQemu?content=34257

thanks!

[Walter Tautz (wtautz)]

obviously kqemu-source should continue to be provided as non-standard kernels
may not have prebuilt modules.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Hi Walter (2007.11.01_21:20:12_+0200)
> obviously kqemu-source should continue to be provided as non-standard kernels
> may not have prebuilt modules.

That doesn't apply to other modules prebuild by ubuntu.

SR

[hangy (hangy)]

xtknight wrote:
> I'm not sure, actually. KQEMU used to be propriety but it is now under the GPL license, so that would be a possibility.

As KQEMU is GPLed now, there should be no problem to get it into linux-ubuntu-modules-*-generic or something in my opinion.

Stefano Rivera wrote:
> Hi Walter (2007.11.01_21:20:12_+0200)
>> obviously kqemu-source should continue to be provided as non-standard kernels
>> may not have prebuilt modules.
> That doesn't apply to other modules prebuild by ubuntu.

I think it does. For example, the "nvidia" module exists pre-compiled in linux-restricted-modules-generic and can be compiled from source from nvidia-kernel-source/nvidia-legacy-kernel-source/nvidia-new-kernel-source.

[Hanno (hzulla)]

Yes, please provide pre-built kqemu modules for the standard Ubuntu kernel(s). Thank you.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kqemu - 1.3.0~pre11-8ubuntu1

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kqemu (1.3.0~pre11-8ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Adding DKMS support (LP: #127610, #249493, #107342)
    - debian/dkms.conf.in:
      + Include a skeleton that is used for making a DKMSified
        kqemu-source.
    - debian/control:
      + Adjust kqemu-source depends.
    - debian/rules:
      + Adjust where kqemu-source installs to for DKMS support.
    - debian/kqemu-source.{postinst,prerm}:
      + Include for DKMS support.

  * Adding user group support (LP: #159340, #135067)
    - Include 60-kqemu.rules udev rules
    - debian/kqemu-source.init:
      + Add init script to load kernel module upon boot.
    - debian/rules:
      + Install 60-kqemu.rules
      + Install init script
    - debian/kqemu-source.{postinst,prerm}:
      + Create a kqemu group.

  * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
    specification.

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:41:00 -0500

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Fixed in kqemu, closing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24 task. Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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