[fedora-virt] qemu 1.1.0 in Rawhide, and planned backport to F17 (was: Re: Upgrading qemu to 1.1 in rawhide)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

This is done now.  Please test the following package:

  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4219848

This package can also be installed on F17.  You may see the following
error:

  $ qemu-kvm
  qemu-kvm: symbol lookup error: qemu-kvm: undefined symbol: rbd_aio_discard

The fix is to upgrade 'ceph' and 'ceph-libs' to the more recent
version from Rawhide.

I'm using and testing it on two of my machines (F17 & Rawhide) and it
runs VMs, runs libguestfs tests etc fine.  So it appears to be a solid
release.

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I would like to backport this whole package to Fedora 17.

The reason is that the current F17 contains a rare data corruptor in
the qcow2 code (for details, see:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2012-July/msg00020.html )

Large amounts of qcow2 code changed between 1.0 and 1.1.0 and instead
of cherry picking fixes, I think we need the new, tested, known-
working code.

Comments welcome.

Rich.

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