[fedora-virt] qemu 1.1.0 in Rawhide, and planned backport to F17

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Thu Jul 5 19:37:00 UTC 2012


On 07/05/2012 11:55 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 05:26:45PM +0200, Frédéric Grelot wrote:
>>
>>> 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)
> 
> Can everyone do this ^^ now?

Nope, I'm the only one with permissions, it's still just a personal repo. I've
updated qemu there now.

Thanks,
Cole


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