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

[Frédéric Grelot]

> 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.

I will test it as soon as possible, but it may be a good idea to put it in virt-preview in order to allow more people to test it first? (Along with ceph and ceph-libs if necessary)

Fréderic.