[fedora-virt] Fedora virt status August 2013

[Cole Robinson]

Hi all, here are some Fedora virt status bits for August.


  Fedora 20
  =========

The big news for Fedora 20 is that ARM is on its way to becoming a
primary architecture:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ARM_as_Primary
http://lwn.net/Articles/559502/

The schedule has slipped a couple weeks, due to quite a few FTBFS
errors, and some fallout from adding ARM builders to the koji pool.
Here's the remaining schedule:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Schedule
  Sep 03: Alpha deadline
  Sep 17: Alpha release
  Oct 08: Beta deadline
  Oct 22: Beta release
  Nov 26: GA release

The three virt 'changes' for F20 are still on track:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Virt_ACLs
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Virt_Manager_Snapshots
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Virt_ARM_on_x86

The latter two are testable in F20 at the moment but are still a bit
rough around the edges, watch those pages for updates.

I've requested a date for the F20 virt test day to be in the beginning
of October. I'll update the list when the details are finalized.


  QEMU 1.6
  ========

QEMU 1.6 was released on August 15th, 2013. Changelog highlights:

- Support for live migration over RDMA
- TCG target for aarch64.
- Support for auto-convergence in live migration ("CPU stunning")
- The XHCI (USB 3.0) controller supports live migration.
- New device "nvme" provides a PCI device that implements the NVMe standard.
- ACPI hotplug of devices behind a PCI bridge is supported

A more detailed changelog is at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.6

QEMU 1.6 will be the basis for what is shipped in Fedora 20.


  Bug stats
  =========

Bug count on Aug 1 2013 : 218
Total bugs today        : 211

Two months in a row with a reduction, hooray! :) But I'm sure that
will change this following month with the impending F20 alpha.

By release:
    * Fedora 18          : 75
    * Fedora 19          : 104
    * Fedora 20          : 1
    * Fedora rawhide     : 31

By package:
    * bochs              : 1
    * edk2               : 2
    * gnome-boxes        : 33
    * ipxe               : 3
    * libguestfs         : 8
    * libosinfo          : 7
    * libvirt            : 33
    * libvirt-sandbox    : 23
    * netcf              : 7
    * qemu               : 39
    * seabios            : 1
    * spice-gtk          : 2
    * usbredir           : 1
    * virt-dmesg         : 1
    * virt-manager       : 16
    * virt-viewer        : 8
    * virt-what          : 3
    * virtio-win         : 3
    * xen                : 6
    * xorg-x11-drv-cirrus: 2
    * xorg-x11-drv-qxl   : 12

By status:
    * ASSIGNED           : 18
    * NEW                : 173
    * ON_QA              : 2
    * POST               : 18


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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1003162

Certain QMP calls are crashing qemu on i686 in rawhide/f20. I think
this results in libvirt not working too well :/ , but there's a patch
upstream.


Thanks,
Cole