[Qemu-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2 released

[Anthony Liguori]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/14/2009 11:58 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> > I'm working on the packaging updates for Ubuntu Lucid, and I'm having
> > trouble with the BIOS bits of qemu-kvm.
> >
> > It seems that a fair amount of the BIOS submodules are missing.
> >
> > The roms/ tree is basically empty.
> >
> >    
>
> Well, binaries are shipped, but I guess you'd like to build from source.
>
> We have several options:
>
> - do nothing
> - ship a generated SOURCES file which contains git URLs and commit 
> hashes, rely on the interested user to fetch and build.  Also tag the 
> submodules appropriately.
> - fetch the submodules and include them in the tarball

I was thinking of taking this approach.

As we integrate the build environments, this will allow a user to do a 
make and it will build all of the roms from source by default.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori