addendum for release notes?

Thierry Carrez thierry.carrez at ubuntu.com
Mon Sep 20 14:35:01 UTC 2010


Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Thierry Carrez (thierry.carrez at ubuntu.com):
>> Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>>
>>> It was brought up on irc that libvirt is currently broken with SDL
>>> graphics.  (By default it uses vnc so you'd be forgiven for not having
>>> noticed.) The relevant bug is
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/615077
>>>
>>> It was suggested that perhaps the maverick release notes should mention
>>> something about this.  In particular, in order to use SDL, the
>>> .Xauthority would need to be copied to a persistent location which
>>> libvirt as access to, and the xml definition for the vm needs to be
>>> updated to point to that location.
>>>
>>> Comments?
>>
>> I agree.
>>
>> To propose a bug for the release notes, you can open a task against the
>> "ubuntu-release-notes" project. Follow the steps:
>>
>> - Click "Also affects project"
>> - Click "Choose another project"
>> - Enter "ubuntu-release-notes" and click Continue.
> 
> Did you really mean 'ubuntu-release-notes' here?  It tells me (as
> I'd expect) 'A fix for this bug has already been requested for Ubuntu
> release notes'

I just tried it and it worked for me, so the task is now added. Feel
free to comment on it on why it would be needed,  or prepare a bit of
text that we could use.

-- 
Thierry Carrez
Ubuntu server team




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