Bug 9430

Summary:	KVM - Kernel Based Virtual Machine
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	ra oeai <oeai>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	fri, juan.baptiste
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Downloads
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Source RPM:		CVE:
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Description ra oeai 2013-03-17 15:34:19 CET

Kernel Based Virtual Machine

KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko.

Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.

The kernel component of KVM is included in mainline Linux, as of 2.6.20.

KVM is open source software. 

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Juan Luis Baptiste 2013-11-06 07:45:59 CET

CC: (none) => juan.baptiste

Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-11 20:55:49 CEST

Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

You might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2016-11-02 09:29:02 CET

Sorry, bugs@ml and pkg-bugs@ml members, for the avalanche.

72 bugs with the "New RPM package request" component, had a severity of "normal" or more, which can lead to losing precious time when searching Bugzilla for bugs that urgently need to get fixed

Now mass-changing that to "enhancement", as it should be for package requests.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly#How_to_file_a_package_request

@ the reporter of this package request

Please check in http://madb.mageia.org/ whether this software did already get packaged, and close this bug report if it did.
Please do also close it if you find a package with the same purpose, that meets your needs.

Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 3 katnatek 2023-11-11 00:52:15 CET

I'm not sure that this is Fixed or Old, all current virtualization software need and use kvm https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32343

Comment 4 Morgan Leijström 2023-11-11 01:13:09 CET

It appears folks use it on Mageia.
Another indication is that kvm.ko is in the kernel packages.
Also see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Virtualisation

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
CC: (none) => fri
Status: NEW => RESOLVED