[fedora-virt] Fedora virt status January 2013

[Cole Robinson]

Hi all, here's highlights of Fedora virt ongoings for January:


  Fedora 19 Features
  ==================

The Fedora 19 feature freeze was January 29th, and there are a handful of virt
relevant features:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virtio_RNG
- paravirt RNG device for VMs

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Storage_Migration
- Migrate a running VM and storage to a new host, no shared storage required

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Device_Failover
- Migrate a guest with an assigned physical device, transparently degrading to
use of an emulated device.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/QXLKMSSupport
- KMS support for QXL, gives us plymouth in guests, stepping stone to spice 3D

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NetworkManagerBridging
- Native bridge support in NetworkManager, and make it play nice with virt.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/oVirtEngine_3.2
- Update to oVirt Engine 3.2

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenStack_Grizzly
- Openstack Grizzly release

For the curious, these two pages contain all the proposed features:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:FeatureAnnounced
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:FeatureAcceptedF19

As of now there still isn't a Fedora 19 schedule, but my guess is that the GA
release will at least be after May.


  Virt Preview now for F18
  ========================

virt-preview, the optional repo providing latest virt packages from rawhide
for the current stable Fedora release, is now building packages against Fedora
18. F17 support is discontinued. For more info on virt-preview, see:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository


  Libvirt 1.0.2 released
  ======================

Libvirt 1.0.2 was released on January 30. Featured items from the changelog:

* LXC improvements (Daniel P. Berrange)
* S390 architecture improvement (Viktor Mihajlovski)
* Power architecture improvement (Li Zhang)
* large Coverity report cleanups and associated bug fixes (John Ferlan)
* virTypedParams* APIs to helps with those data structures (Jiri Denemark)

libvirt-1.0.2 is in virt-preview and rawhide now, however this release broke
the python bindings, and a fix is still pending:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt/2013-February/003576.html

Additionally, there were new libvirt maintenance releases for F16, F17, and
F18 libvirt versions, primarily to fix a nasty CVE. Please update ASAP:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt-0.10.2.3-1.fc18
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt-0.9.11.9-1.fc17
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt-0.9.6.4-1.fc16


  Bug stats
  =========

Bug count on Jan 06 2013: 248
Bug count on Feb 03 2013: 264

Not surprisingly, with F18 hitting the streets there's been a sizable uptick
in F18 bugs:

By release:
    * Fedora 16          : 36
    * Fedora 17          : 96
    * Fedora 18          : 105
    * Fedora rawhide     : 27

However with F16 going EOL this month, that will 'fix' a big handful. Of
course, if anyone out there has any bugs filed against F16 that they are still
hitting on F17 and F18, please change the version soon or they will be mass
closed.

Package breakdown:

By package:
    * gnome-boxes        : 16
    * gtk-vnc            : 3
    * ipxe               : 2
    * libcacard          : 2
    * libguestfs         : 2
    * libosinfo          : 11
    * libseccomp         : 1
    * libvirt            : 51
    * libvirt-cim        : 3
    * libvirt-glib       : 2
    * libvirt-qmf        : 1
    * libvirt-sandbox    : 12
    * netcf              : 4
    * qemu               : 77
    * spice-gtk          : 4
    * spice-vdagent      : 1
    * usbredir           : 1
    * virt-dmesg         : 1
    * virt-manager       : 24
    * virt-v2v           : 4
    * virt-viewer        : 6
    * virt-what          : 2
    * xen                : 12
    * xorg-x11-drv-cirrus: 4
    * xorg-x11-drv-qxl   : 18


  Bugs of note
  ============

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873845
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892075
Couple common crashes in qemu related to spice, that accumulated quite a few
duplicates. Fixed with current F18 packages as of last week, so make sure
you're up to date!

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875348
Another spice related crash, this one affecting clients like boxes,
virt-viewer, and virt-manager. There's a known fix, just not pushed yet.

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810040
fprintd would crash GDM if a VM didn't have a USB bus, as is the default in
hyper-v and xen PV. Had the dubious honor of being the last fix accepted into F18!


Thanks,
Cole