[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Add libvirt (KVM) support

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

 Hi Angelo, Christopher,

On 15/04/2019 16:54, Christopher Peeters wrote:
> On 15/04/2019 16:06, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 2:23 PM Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
>>>  Hi Christopher,
>>>
>>>  Plese don't top-post, but reply inline like I do below.
>>>
>>> On 15/04/2019 09:46, Christopher Peeters wrote:
>>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your email. I wasn't aware about the commit title
>>>> conventions so I will fix this.
>>>>
>>>> The reason why I selected a different distribution is the lack of
>>>> support for Libvirt by the original distribution.
>>>  I would prefer in that case that we always use this other distribution (which
>>> is actually the same distribution, right? bionic == ubuntu1804...).
>> I wouldn't like to use this distribution if possible, is not the
>> official one and not maintained by canonical. The official one is:
>>
>> https://app.vagrantup.com/ubuntu/boxes/bionic64
> As I said before there's no support from Canonical for libvirt images.
> This can only be solved by Canonical. And if I look at Launchpad, it
> won't happen very soon. There's another question for LXC support open
> for more then a year now.
> 
> An other option when preferring official images is to switch over to one
> of the following boxes since they do understand that source projects
> should support each other and therefore have support for libvirt in
> their Vagrant boxes. I haven't tested them though.
> 
> - https://app.vagrantup.com/debian/boxes/stretch64

 Without understanding all this vagrant stuff, I would say that simply switching
away from Ubuntu and to Debian sounds like the right thing to do, no? Debian
stable is definitely a distro we want to have supported at all times.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> - https://app.vagrantup.com/centos/boxes/7
> 
> - https://app.vagrantup.com/fedora/boxes/29-atomic-host
> 
> - https://app.vagrantup.com/opensuse/boxes/openSUSE-15.0-x86_64
> 
> - https://app.vagrantup.com/archlinux/boxes/archlinux
>