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Fedora 13
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The Fedora 13 beta is released now. Testing of virt features is
appreciated. We are down to the wire, with less than two weeks before
the release candidate is composed.
It should be noted that non frozen rawhide means that changes for F-13
now need to happen in the F-13 branch, as well as devel.
F-13 schedule:
2010-05-06 Compose Release Candidate (12 days)
Fedora Cloud SIG
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Progress is being made towards updated Fedora in the EC2 cloud, and
There is some interest in supporting other cloude nvironemnets. More
details can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG
F12 Qemu
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Fedora 12 has a qemu update in updates-testing which is should fix a
number of issues. Please test and provide karma as appropriate.
Virt Preview
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As was announced before, the virt-preview repository for F12 users wishing
to test out the latest F13 virtualization bits is available. Additionally we
have created a virt-preview repository for F13 users wishing to test out
packages destined for F14 virtualization. Instructions for using these
repositories can be found at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
Recent updates in this repository include:
F-12:
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qemu-0.12.3-8:
- Change requires to the noarch seabios-bin
- Add ownership of docdir to qemu-common (#572110)
- Fix "Cannot boot from non-existent NIC" error when using virt-install
(#577851)
- Update virtio console patches from upstream
virt-manager-0.8.3-3:
- Fix volume creation from 'New VM' wizard (bz 579039)
- Fix firstrun app lock up when calling PackageKit
- Fix File->Add Connection (bz 580578)
F-13:
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libvirt-0.8.0-1:
- Upstream release 0.8.0
- Snapshotting support (QEmu/VBox/ESX)
- Network filtering API
- XenAPI driver
- new APIs for domain events
- Libvirt managed save API
- timer subselection for domain clock
- synchronous hooks
- API to update guest CPU to host CPU
- virDomainUpdateDeviceFlags new API
- migrate max downtime API
- volume wiping API
- and many bug fixe
python-virtinst-0.500.3-1:
- Update to version 0.500.3
- virt-install: New --watchdog option: configure a virtual watchdog device
- virt-install: New --soundhw option: More flexible sound configuration
deprecates --sound, though back compat is maintained
- virt-install: New --security option: configure VM security driver settings
- virt-install: New --description option: set a human readable description
- Better OS defaults: Use <video> VGA and <sound> AC97 if supported
- Enable x2apic for new KVM guests
virt-manager-0.8.4-1:
- Update to version 0.8.4
- 'Import' install option, to create a VM around an existing OS image
- Support multiple boot devices and boot order
- Watchdog device support
- Enable setting a human readable VM description.
- Option to manually specifying a bridge name, if bridge isn't detected
F13 Bugs
========
DOOM-O-METER: 76 bugs remain open against F13 virtualization packages,
60 are not fixed with pending releases.
The beta release has provided new testers, which found new bugs.
We have a lot of work to do before release. Anyone wishing to help can
find more information at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_bugs
= Blockers =
== kernel ==
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577059
Failure while swapping install discs on KVM guest (F12 virt host)
Work is in progress to get this blocker resolved quickly.
= Important =
== kvm ==
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478317
almost 9 thousand syscalls per second while idle
A patch has been posted which may resolve the issue. Look for an update
after further testing.
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.
Feedback suggests that this is no longer an issue in the 0.12.x qemu
packages. These packages are available in F-12 updates-testing will be
updates to F-12 soon.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544940
reattach virtio to rhel{5,6} guests will cause qemu-kvm crash