On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 15:29 +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote: > 2013/5/10 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>: > [..] > > Thanks for your quick response. > > >> vmsock is necessary to pass parameters to the VM [guestinfo]. > > > > Like what? How would the installer use these parameters? > > Using preseeded "d-i preseed/early_command" that set the hostname, ip > or some other things. > > [...] > > I doubt that this will be backported to wheezy as it doesn't seem very > > important. I can't see any reason not to enable it for 3.9 onward, > > though. > > I agree that this is not very important, and has very few users. Dear Stable Release Managers, please could you say whether this feature would be acceptable in a stable update, considering it as being added hardware support (virtual machine managers are effectively hardware platforms). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison
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