natty vgabios installs links into /usr/share/kvm

Bug #736351 reported by Serge Hallyn
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Dustin Kirkland 
vgabios (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Serge Hallyn

Bug Description

Binary package hint: vgabios

If you install vgabios before qemu-kvm, then since /usr/share/kvm already exists, qemu does not create it as a symlink to /usr/share/qemu, which is where qemu looks for bioses. So have vgabios install into /usr/share/qemu instead of /usr/share/kvm.

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Changed in vgabios (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package vgabios - 0.6c-2ubuntu3

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vgabios (0.6c-2ubuntu3) natty; urgency=low

  * Remove symlinks entirely; kvm package no longer exists, (LP: #736351)
 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:26:07 -0500

Changed in vgabios (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in qemu-kvm (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package qemu-kvm - 0.14.0+noroms-0ubuntu3

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qemu-kvm (0.14.0+noroms-0ubuntu3) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/qemu-common.links: symlink all of the vgabios bin files into
    the qemu expected paths, LP: #736351
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:20:14 -0500

Changed in qemu-kvm (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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