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From: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@heliman.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tools: Improve make deb
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:40:00 +0100
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Il 26/02/2013 16:12, Ian Campbell ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 15:03 +0000, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
>> @Ian or Stefano:
>> About use upstream qemu from debian package on xen debian package:
>> Do I need to only remove the build (similar to seabios packaged patch)
>> or may I also need to patch libxl/xm?
> Probably you'd need to patch libxl (but not xm) too.
>
> On my todo list I have an action to make the configure script understand
> --with-system-qemu=PATH, which would disable the qemu-xen build and
> cause libxl to use $PATH (default /usr/bin/qemu?) instead
> of /usr/lib/xen/bin/blah. If someone else were to get there first that
> would be awesome!
>
> ./configure --(enable|disable)-qemu-traditional (i.e. just turn the
> build off and on) would be quite useful too I think. As would making
> libxl handle the absence of either a little more gracefully.
>
> Ian.
>
Thanks for the info, your idea for upstream xen instead is better than 
mine on debian patches.
Unfortunately for the moment I not have sufficent time to do this task.
The default qemu probably is good /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64, tested 
and full working on debian (not know about different distros), 
/usr/bin/qemu link to i386 which has some bugs (for example one or more 
important/critical with spice, that seem present also in other distros).
Following your indication it would be useful to add also the options to 
use system seabios for example --with-system-seabios=PATH, which is 
faster to do.