[fedora-virt] Fedora virt status

[Justin M. Forbes]

Fedora 13
=========

  The Fedora 13 alpha is released now. Testing of virt features is
  appreciated.  Now it is time to widdle down the bug list and get F13
  as clean as possible. We have a Virt Test Day scheduled for Thursday,
  April 8th.  Please mark your calendars and participate if at all
  possible.

  It should be noted that non frozen rawhide means that changes for F-13
  now need to happen in the F-13 branch, as well as devel.

  F-13 schedule:

  2010-03-23  Beta (Final Development) Freeze (7 days)
  2010-04-29  Compose Release Candidate (44 days)


Fedora Cloud SIG
================

  Progress is being made towards updated Fedora in the EC2 cloud, and
  There is some interest in supporting the IBM Cloud. More details
  can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG

F12 Qemu
========

  Fedora 12 has a qemu update in updates-testing which is should fix a
  number of issues.  Please test and provide karma as appropriate.  The
  current version for testing is qemu-0.12.3-2.f12.

F12 Virt Preview
================

  As was announced before, the virt-preview repository for F12 users wishing
  to test out the latest virtualization bits is available.  Instructions for
  using this repository can be found at:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository

  Recent updates in this repository include:

  qemu-0.12.3-6:
  - Allow builds --with x86only
  - Add libaio-devel buildreq for aio support
  - Migration clear the fd in error cases (#518032)
  - Detect cdrom via ioctl (#473154)
  - re add increased buffer for USB control requests (#546483)

  seabios-0.5.1-1:
  - Update to 0.5.1 stable release
  - Pick up patches required for current qemu

Bugs
====

  DOOM-O-METER: 244 bugs open 2 weeks ago, up to 257 now.

  The alpha release has provided new testers, which found new bugs.
  We have a lot of work to do before beta. Anyone wishing to help can
  find more information at:
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_bugs

= Blockers =

== libvirt ==

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566425
    could not load kernel '/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-vmlinuz.bmav1g':
    Permission denied

    This issue has a patch posted upstream, and should be fixed in the
    next libvirt release.

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571573
    SELinux is preventing /sbin/ip6tables-multi access to a leaked /proc/mtrr
    file descriptor.

    Problem identified, a fix is expected shortly.

= Important =

== kvm ==

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478317
    almost 9 thousand syscalls per second while idle

    This is believed to be a result of the USB Tablet device, but several
    users have noticed high host CPU usage while guests were idle.

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544339
    Segfaults logged from kvm (qemu-kvm) resulting in guest sudden crash
    and data loss

    A number of users complaining of guests crashing and sometimes taking
    the host with them.  This appears to be related to sound emulation. 
    Feedback suggests that this is no longer an issue in the 0.12.x qemu
    packages.  These packages are available in F-12 updates-testing will be
    updates to F-12 soon.

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544940
    reattach virtio to rhel{5,6} guests will cause qemu-kvm crash