Fedora 13 =========
Feature Submission deadline for F-13 was earlier this week, we have some exciting new features submitted. As we move towards F-13, we are getting really close to the Feature Freeze deadline.
F-13 schedule:
2010-02-09 Feature Freeze (12 days) 2010-02-16 Alpha Freeze (19 days) 2010-03-23 Beta (Final Development) Freeze (54 days) 2010-04-29 Compose Release Candidate (91 days)
F12 Virt Preview ================
As was announced before, the virt-preview repository for F12 users wishing to test out the latest virtualization bits is available. Instructions for using this repository can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
Recent updates in this repository include:
qemu-0.12.2-4: - Update to 0.12.2 upstream - Add virtio-console patches from upstream for the F13 VirtioSerial feature - Remove build dependency on iasl now that we have seabios
Bugs ====
DOOM-O-METER: 216 bugs open 1 week ago, up to 230 now.
We have a lot of work to do!
= Important =
== kernel ==
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545851 KVM/networking-related crash
This is related to guests using IPV6
== kvm ==
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555788 SIGTRAP leakage between separate virtual machines
Patches have been posted for this, and a resolution is coming soon.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478317 almost 9 thousand syscalls per second while idle
This is believed to be a result of the USB Tablet device, but several users have noticed high host CPU usage while guests were idle.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544339 Segfaults logged from kvm (qemu-kvm) resulting in guest sudden crash and data loss
A number of users complaining of guests crashing and sometimes taking the host with them. This appears to be related to sound emulation.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544940 reattach virtio to rhel{5,6} guests will cause qemu-kvm crash
== libvirt ==
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547045 libvirt can generate bogus node device XML
libvirt has a function for escaping XML strings that we clearly forgot to use here. In addition though we probably need to check where this garbage is coming from, because in this particular case we probably shouldn't be including the element at all.