Hey all, here are some Fedora virt status bits for July. Fedora 18 =========
We've started passing interesting dates for Fedora 18: July 27: Feature submission deadline August 07: Feature freeze (majority of the feature is in fedora) August 14: Alpha change deadline Septem 19: Beta change deadline October 2: Beta Release October 4: Virtualization Test Day In time for the Feature freeze next week, we will be taking a snapshot of QEMU upstream, and will eventually move to QEMU 1.2 when it is released later in the month. As the feature submission deadline has passed, here is the final virt feature list: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Syscall_Filters https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Live_Snapshots https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Guest_Suspend_Hibernate In the last status report, I mentioned two potential features that eventually didn't make the cut: virt cpu/mem hotplug won't be fully ready for F18, and virt storage motion will not have an easy way for end users to leverage in time for F18. And to clarify, there will be many more virt features that are available in F18 than the ones documented here. These are just the bits that are going through the fedora feature process, which in a nutshell is about increased user/developer/press exposure: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy Reviving QEMU PPC, Sparc ======================== The openbios package has been retired in Fedora for over a year now, since it was thought there was no way to build the package without PPC and Sparc machines in koji. So since last March we haven't been distributing qemu-system-ppc* or qemu-system-sparc* binaries, which depend on openbios. However, QEMU releases distribute prebuilt versions of openbios and several other roms that we don't have packaged for Fedora. I asked the fedora packaging list if it might be possible to get a packaging exception to distribute those prebuilt binaries: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2012-July/008557.html Dan Horak pointed out that we actually have workable cross compilers packaged in Fedora, which might be sufficient. In impressive fashion, Rich Jones picked up the ball and submitted package reviews for openbios and SLOF, which were quickly reviewed by Michael Scherer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844748 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844737 There are still several other roms that will need to be packaged, and for it all to be integrated with the qemu package, but this is a large chunk of the work. Kudos to Rich, Michael, and everyone that chimed in on the packaging list! QEMU stable updates =================== There were several QEMU updates pushed recently, based off upstream maintenance branches. Rawhide got QEMU 1.1.1 which was released July 16th: http://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=134243605927652&w=2 F17 is now finally based off the qemu-kvm 1.0.1 release. While we had been carrying many of the 1.0.1 patches since January, the actual 1.0.1 release from March contained several more bugfixes: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/qemu-1.0.1-1.fc17 F16 pulled the latest patches from the QEMU 0.15 stable branch (every patch since 0.15.1 was tagged): http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu-stable-0.15.git;a=shortlog https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/qemu-0.15.1-7.fc16 virtio-win drivers updated ========================== There's a new ISO containing the last virtio drivers for Windows guests: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/ Let the list know if you hit any issues with them! Bug stats ========= Bug count on Jul 10 2012: 184 Bug count on Aug 02 2012: 208 Decent increase, but many of these will be closed when the virt-manager and qemu updates are pushed to stable. We've also got 9 sitting in POST waiting for an update, mostly libvirt. By release: * Fedora 16 : 81 * Fedora 17 : 96 * Fedora rawhide : 31 By package: * gnome-boxes : 9 * gtk-vnc : 3 * ipxe : 1 * libguestfs : 6 * libosinfo : 1 * libvirt : 44 * libvirt-cim : 3 * libvirt-sandbox : 3 * netcf : 4 * python-virtinst : 4 * qemu : 65 * spice-gtk : 5 * spice-vdagent : 1 * usbredir : 1 * virt-dmesg : 1 * virt-manager : 18 * virt-v2v : 3 * virt-viewer : 6 * virt-what : 2 * xen : 15 * xorg-x11-drv-cirrus: 2 * xorg-x11-drv-qxl : 11 Bugs of note ============ * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714271 libvirt pinned to single CPU after suspend/resume cycle -> all VMs running on the same single core Fixed builds are in updates-testing, so should be hitting stable soon! * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840444 QEMU wasn't correctly offering KVM support. This regressed with the 1.1 rawhide update, but Rich Jones and Dan Berrange combined to get this fixed right quick! rawhide and virt-preview should have fixed packages now. * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840240 virt-manager w/ vnc can get into a bad state where virt-manager is no longer visible but still taking keystrokes, meaning you can't interact with other windows. Regression caused by 0.9.2, fixed with current update in updates-testing. Thanks, Cole _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
