Re: RFP: virtme-ng -- Tool to build and run a kernel inside a virtualized snapshot of your live system

[Héctor Orón Martínez <hector.oron@gmail.com>]

Hello Andrea,

On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 20:47, Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 10:45:15PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:

> > I think I have the first version of virtme-ng.
> >
> > @Héctor Orón Martínez can you help reviewing and pushing
> > https://salsa.debian.org/ribalda/virtme-ng ?
> >
> > Maybe you could also create salsa.debian.org/debian/virtme-ng
>
> Is there any update on this? Anything I can do to help?

I tried to build the package posted in the salsa repo, but failed for
me, then I was unable to get back to this. Have you been able to
review such a source tree?

Regards

> > >> > El mar, 9 de may de 2023, 07:54, Emmanuel Arias <eamanu@yaerobi.com> escribió:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Oh, I did not note/check that virtme already exists in Debian.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Anyway, I am interest in the package, so I will follow virtme/virme-ng project :-)
> > >> >>
> > >> >> El mar, 9 de may de 2023, 07:49, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo@ribalda.com> escribió:
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 12:46 PM Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> wrote:
> > >> >>> >
> > >> >>> > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 11:32:59AM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> > >> >>> > > Hi
> > >> >>> > >
> > >> >>> > >
> > >> >>> > > On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 11:28 AM Héctor Orón Martínez
> > >> >>> > > <hector.oron@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >>> > > >
> > >> >>> > > > Hello,
> > >> >>> > > >
> > >> >>> > > > El mar, 9 may 2023, 9:51, Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> escribió:
> > >> >>> > > >>
> > >> >>> > > >> On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 09:30:54AM +0200, Héctor Orón Martínez wrote:
> > >> >>> > > >> > Hello,
> > >> >>> > > >> >
> > >> >>> > > >> >   virtme already exists in Debian, what would be the benefit of virtme-ng
> > >> >>> > > >> > over virtme?
> > >> >>> > > >> >
> > >> >>> > > >> > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/virtme
> > >> >>> > > >> >
> > >> >>> > > >> > Regards
> > >> >>> > > >>
> > >> >>> > > >> The original virtme project is not maintained anymore
> > >> >>> > > >> (https://github.com/amluto/virtme), so we decided to fork the project
> > >> >>> > > >> and continue the development / bug fixing in virtme-ng
> > >> >>> > > >> (https://github.com/arighi/virtme-ng).
> > >> >>> > > >>
> > >> >>> > > >> Some people are already using and contributing to virtme-ng and there
> > >> >>> > > >> are plans to package it in SuSE.
> > >> >>> > > >>
> > >> >>> > > >> Honestly I don't know what would be the right procedure to "obsolete"
> > >> >>> > > >> the old virtme package and replace it virtme-ng (if possible), but
> > >> >>> > > >> ideally it would be nice to do something like this. Any guidance or
> > >> >>> > > >> suggestion is welcome.
> > >> >>> > > >
> > >> >>> > > >
> > >> >>> > > > I suggest we evaluate switching upstream from virtme to virtme-ng, on the Debian virtme package. I would not mind if you want to be added as uploader for the package.
> > >> >>> > > >
> > >> >>> > > > Ricardo has been working on virtme. What do you think?
> > >> >>> > >
> > >> >>> > > SGTM. Maybe we can send an email out of courtesy to the old virtme author.
> > >> >>> >
> > >> >>> > All good to me as well! I already sent an email to the virtme author
> > >> >>> > (Andrew Lutomirski) to inform him that I was forking the project, but I
> > >> >>> > didn't get any response.
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> That sounds good.
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> >
> > >> >>> > Maybe I can try to ping him again and see if he's also happy about this
> > >> >>> > plan.
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> May I suggest that when you ping them, tell them about the plans to
> > >> >>> replace virtme with virtme-ng on Debian and put  me on cc?
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> Thanks!
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> >
> > >> >>> > -Andrea



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