Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-04-02 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting RS (r...@pswl.com): Hello Steve, Very Interested in helping to test Qemu 2 in Trusty. Have been trying to get a virtualisation hypervisor working for considerable time. Is there any chance of a step by step guide for setting up for a reasonably intelligent but not

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-04-01 Thread RS
Hello Steve, Very Interested in helping to test Qemu 2 in Trusty. Have been trying to get a virtualisation hypervisor working for considerable time. Is there any chance of a step by step guide for setting up for a reasonably intelligent but not techie/experienced user of linux,

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-13 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On 03/12/2014 08:52 AM, Serge Hallyn wrote: Quoting Jamie Strandboge (ja...@canonical.com): Creating a symlink to /usr/bin/qemu-img from /usr/bin/kvm-img makes this error go away and things seem to work, but I've not reviewed/tested if this is the correct fix. Ah. So the choice of kvm-img

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-13 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Jamie Strandboge (ja...@canonical.com): On 03/12/2014 08:52 AM, Serge Hallyn wrote: Quoting Jamie Strandboge (ja...@canonical.com): Creating a symlink to /usr/bin/qemu-img from /usr/bin/kvm-img makes this error go away and things seem to work, but I've not reviewed/tested if this

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 13 March 2014 15:56, Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com wrote: Quoting Jamie Strandboge (ja...@canonical.com): On 03/12/2014 08:52 AM, Serge Hallyn wrote: Quoting Jamie Strandboge (ja...@canonical.com): Creating a symlink to /usr/bin/qemu-img from /usr/bin/kvm-img makes this error go

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-13 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Dimitri John Ledkov (x...@ubuntu.com): On 13 March 2014 15:56, Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com wrote: Quoting Jamie Strandboge (ja...@canonical.com): On 03/12/2014 08:52 AM, Serge Hallyn wrote: Quoting Jamie Strandboge (ja...@canonical.com): Creating a symlink to

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-12 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Jamie Strandboge (ja...@canonical.com): On 02/26/2014 12:40 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote: Hi, as shown https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1284793 we are hoping to get Qemu 2.0 into 14.04. This is tricky due to the timing - Qemu 2.0 release is scheduled for April 4

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-11 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On 02/26/2014 12:40 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote: Hi, as shown https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1284793 we are hoping to get Qemu 2.0 into 14.04. This is tricky due to the timing - Qemu 2.0 release is scheduled for April 4 ( http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.0 ), with freeze for

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-11 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Jamie Strandboge (ja...@canonical.com): On 02/26/2014 12:40 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote: Hi, as shown https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1284793 we are hoping to get Qemu 2.0 into 14.04. This is tricky due to the timing - Qemu 2.0 release is scheduled for April 4

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-04 Thread Martin Pitt
Martin Pitt [2014-02-27 7:14 +0100]: * Setting up a shared directory with -virtfs now crashes, filed as https://launchpad.net/bugs/1285505 This got fixed now, thanks! Once the latter bug is fixed, I can give this a good hard beating with running some intrusive (such as udisks2 or

RE: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-03 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2014.02.26 10:41 Serge Hallyn wrote: as shown https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1284793 we are hoping to get Qemu 2.0 into 14.04. This is tricky due to the timing - Qemu 2.0 release is scheduled for April 4 ( http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.0 ), with freeze for 14.04

RE: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-03 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2014.03.03 18:49 Serge Hallyn wrote: It looks like at least one of the bugs (dup of a dup of 1055166) is fixed as of 2 hours ago. Hopefully things get better. I checked using my main 14.04 Dekstop VM as a quest on my 12.04 host server. Yes it works. I'll check out the other scenarios

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-02-28 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
Hi Serge, Le 26/02/2014 19:40, Serge Hallyn a écrit : Hi, as shown https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1284793 we are hoping to get Qemu 2.0 into 14.04. This is tricky due to the timing - Qemu 2.0 release is scheduled for April 4 ( http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.0 ), with

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-02-28 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On 02/27/2014 12:36 PM, Jason DeRose wrote: ... [1] UEFI doesn't work with a Saucy host, but does work with a Trusty host, I believe thanks to the newer ovmf (edk2) in Trusty; likewise, UEFI doesn't work with a Saucy guest, although I'm not sure why this is; in summary, Trusty host +

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-02-28 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Martin Pitt (martin.p...@ubuntu.com): Hey Serge, Serge Hallyn [2014-02-26 12:40 -0600]: In an attempt to shake out bugs as early as possible, I've started building packages based on current git HEAD at ppa:ubuntu-virt/candidate. This seems to be testing quite well for me on

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-02-27 Thread Jason DeRose
...@lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 11:40:32 AM Subject: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04 Hi, as shown https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1284793 we are hoping to get Qemu 2.0 into 14.04. This is tricky due to the timing - Qemu 2.0

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-02-27 Thread Serge Hallyn
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 11:40:32 AM Subject: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04 Hi, as shown https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1284793 we are hoping to get Qemu 2.0 into 14.04. This is tricky due to the timing - Qemu 2.0 release is scheduled for April 4 ( http

Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-02-26 Thread Serge Hallyn
Hi, as shown https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1284793 we are hoping to get Qemu 2.0 into 14.04. This is tricky due to the timing - Qemu 2.0 release is scheduled for April 4 ( http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.0 ), with freeze for 14.04 being April 10. However, the drastic

Re: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-02-26 Thread Martin Pitt
Hey Serge, Serge Hallyn [2014-02-26 12:40 -0600]: In an attempt to shake out bugs as early as possible, I've started building packages based on current git HEAD at ppa:ubuntu-virt/candidate. This seems to be testing quite well for me on amd64. It would be great if people could start testing