Comment 7 for bug 708080

Nominating for SRU, fulfills: (1) have an obviously safe patch and (2) affect an application rather than critical infrastructure packages

Justification: it fixes obviously wrong behaviour in regard to a package that is central to the Ubuntu Server product (KVM).

The fix is from upstream and has been verified to exist in Natty.

Regression potential: Existing puppet manifests which evaluate either the "virtual" or "is_virtual" fact will be impacted when run on KVM guests. However, the existence of such manifests is to be doubted, since they would be broken in such an environment anyway. Administrators that have worked around this bug may possibly notice a regression, though.