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From: hw <hw@×××××××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xen: How to enable a non-existant USE flag? (xen doesn't work)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 08:16:02
Message-Id: 55A4C539.9090009@gartencenter-vaehning.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xen: How to enable a non-existant USE flag? (xen doesn't work) by Alan McKinnon
1 Am 13.07.2015 um 21:55 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
2 > On 13/07/2015 19:22, hw wrote:
3 >>
4 >> So what happened to the 'hvm' USE flag of the "xen-tools" package?
5 >>
6 >> http://gentoobrowse.randomdan.homeip.net/package/app-emulation/xen-tools
7 >> says there is such a flag. However:
8 >>
9 >>
10 >> moonflo ~ # equery uses xen-tools
11 >> [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
12 >> [ : I - package is installed with flag ]
13 >> [ Colors : set, unset ]
14 >> * Found these USE flags for app-emulation/xen-tools-4.5.1-r1:
15 >> U I
16 >> - - api : Build the C libxenapi bindings
17 >> - - custom-cflags : Build with user-specified CFLAGS
18 >> (unsupported)
19 >> - - debug : Enable extra debug codepaths, like
20 >> asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see
21 >>
22 >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
23 >> - - doc : Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc,
24 >> etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally
25 >> - - flask : Enable the Flask XSM module from NSA
26 >> - - ovmf : Enable support to boot UEFI guest vm,
27 >> needed by hvm
28 >> + + pam : Enable pam support
29 >> - - pygrub : Install the pygrub boot loader
30 >> - - python : Add optional support/bindings for the
31 >> Python language
32 >> + + python_targets_python2_7 : Build with Python 2.7
33 >> - - qemu : Enable IOEMU support via the use of qemu-dm
34 >> - - screen : Enable support for running domain U
35 >> console in an app-misc/screen session
36 >> - - static-libs : Build static versions of dynamic
37 >> libraries as well
38 >> - - system-qemu : Using app-emulation/qemu instead of the
39 >> bundled one
40 >> - - system-seabios : Using sys-firmware/seabios instead of
41 >> the bundled one
42 >> moonflo ~ #
43 >>
44 >>
45 >> So there is no such flag. Apparently my installation is missing
46 >> 'hvmloader', and I'm guessing that I would have that if I could enable
47 >> the 'hmv' USE flag.
48 >>
49 >> How do I enable a USE flag that doesn't seem to exist?
50 >>
51 >
52 >
53 > You don't enable a USE flag that does not exist. How could you? It's not
54 > there.
55
56 Have all hardware virtualization capabilities been removed from xen in
57 Gentoo?