#3470 BLOC Untriag: Build 578/579/581 don't boot correctly in VMware and QEMU (was: Build 578/579 don't boot correctly in VMware Workstation)

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#3470: Build 578/579/581 don't boot correctly in VMware and QEMU
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  Reporter:  ant      |       Owner:  jg                               
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                              
  Priority:  blocker  |   Milestone:  Untriaged                        
 Component:  distro   |     Version:  Development build as of this date
Resolution:           |    Keywords:                                   
  Verified:  0        |  
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Changes (by MitchellNCharity):

  * priority:  high => blocker
  * milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0 => Untriaged


Comment:

 I am reverting jg's triage, changing Milestone to Untriaged, and Priority
 to blocker.
 And updating the summary.

 To Untriaged because, with QEMU broken as well, the problem now looks like
 "all emulation is currently broken", rather than a VMWare-specific
 problem.

 To Blocker, mostly just to make sure the change gets noticed.  OLPC policy
 towards emulation has never been clear to me.  While core team will
 sometimes spend time on it, emulation does not appear in roadmap
 milestones, or seemingly elsewhere as a project objective.  While working
 emulation could greatly increase the size of our tester community, more
 than one person decided not to recruit emulation-based testers for
 Trial-3, given that emulation broke, and was left broken, in the run up to
 Trial-2.  I realize this is just one facet of the OLPC "we are currently
 too busy to get help" problem.  But perhaps given the stated need for
 greater testing (Walter's news summary last week), making emulation an
 objective might be decoupled from the general "we'll work to grow a
 development community when we finally have time, after FRS" solution.  So
 "high" may be the right thing for now, but if FRS is to ship well tested,
 emulation may need to be made an objective.

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