Howdy all, here are some Fedora virt status bits for August. Fedora 18 =========
Fedora 18 has slipped a few weeks due to ongoing trouble with some blocker bugs that release engineering wants fixed before the alpha goes out: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000970.html The current F18 schedule: Sep 11: Alpha release Oct 02: Beta change deadline Oct 04: Virtualization Test Day Oct 16: Beta Release Nov 05: Final Change Deadline Nov 20: GA Release Unfortunately this means the scheduled virt test day is no longer after the beta release, but thankfully still after the beta change deadline. QEMU 1.2 Release Approaching ============================ QEMU is moving towards the 1.2 release, currently scheduled for this Wednesday, September 5th: http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.2 If you want a sneak peak at what will eventually be the 1.2 changelog, see: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/Next Currently QEMU 1.2 rc1 is available in rawhide and F18. libvirt 0.10 release ==================== On August 29th, libvirt 0.10.0 was released! The release highlights: - agent: add qemuAgentArbitraryCommand() for general qemu agent command - Introduce virDomainPinEmulator and virDomainGetEmulatorPinInfo functions - network: use firewalld instead of iptables, when available - network: make network driver vlan-aware - esx: Implement network driver - driver for parallels hypervisor - Various LXC improvements - Add virDomainGetHostname However there were a few serious issues in the release, so a 0.10.1 release followed soon after with several important bug fixes: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-August/msg01848.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-August/msg02028.html 0.10.1 is currently in rawhide. F18 has 0.10.0 rc2, and will have 0.10.1 fairly soon, once an updated netcf makes it to F18 stable. Reviving QEMU PPC, Sparc ======================== Following the prerequisite work done in July, qemu-system-sparc and qemu-system-ppc packages are now available in F18 and rawhide. See the package list here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=350988 Additionally, KVM is now enabled for all targets that support it. This doesn't change anything for the default fedora packages, but it allows the Fedora PPC folks to get a KVM enabled qemu-system-ppc in their package builds. Bug stats ========= Bug count on Aug 02 2012: 208 Bug count on Sep 03 2012: 225 Another decent bump, with over half in libvirt. But there are definitely some easy close candidates and a handful sitting in POST waiting for a build. By release: * Fedora 16 : 69 * Fedora 17 : 111 * Fedora 18 : 11 * Fedora rawhide : 34 By package: * gnome-boxes : 12 * gtk-vnc : 4 * ipxe : 2 * kvm : 1 * libguestfs : 6 * libosinfo : 1 * libvirt : 56 * libvirt-cim : 3 * libvirt-qmf : 1 * libvirt-sandbox : 3 * netcf : 4 * python-virtinst : 4 * qemu : 60 * sgabios : 1 * spice-gtk : 6 * spice-vdagent : 2 * usbredir : 1 * virt-dmesg : 1 * virt-manager : 18 * virt-v2v : 3 * virt-viewer : 8 * virt-what : 2 * xen : 11 * xorg-x11-drv-cirrus: 3 * xorg-x11-drv-qxl : 12 Bugs of note ============ * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853408 libguestfs tickling a qemu 1.2rc1 crash in character device handling Rich tracked down a good amount of info but no fix available yet. Thanks, Cole _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
