qemu-kvm upstart configuration from qemu-system-x86 relies on binary from qemu-kvm

qemu-kvm is not a transitional package (check utopic), but obviously this is non-ideal.

The sysvinit script checks /dev/kvm instead. That would be fine for newer systems, but older systems where kvm is not auto-loaded at boot would suffer. I'm not sure if we actually support any such systems any more.

This bug was fixed in the package qemu - 2.0.0+dfsg-6ubuntu2

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qemu (2.0.0+dfsg-6ubuntu2) utopic; urgency=medium

  * d/qemu-system-x86.qemu-kvm.upstart: change the early-exit check from
    /usr/bin/kvm to qemu-system-x86_64. (LP: #1348551)
 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:35:02 -0500

Hello James, or anyone else affected,

Accepted qemu into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Verified with qemu-system-x86 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2 from trusty-proposed.

$ sudo apt-get install qemu-system-x86 --no-install-recommends
[...]
$ cat /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
1

This bug was fixed in the package qemu - 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2

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qemu (2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * d/qemu-system-x86.qemu-kvm.upstart: change the early-exit check from
    /usr/bin/kvm to qemu-system-x86_64. (LP: #1348551)
 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:59:57 -0500

The verification of the Stable Release Update for qemu has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.