Hi all, here's an overview of fedora virt happenings for October.
Fedora 20
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As we approach the beta release, Fedora 20 has slipped two weeks due
to unresolved blocker bugs. The tentative schedule is now:
Nov 12: Beta release
Dec 03: Final change deadline
Dec 17: GA release
Fedora 20 virt test day results
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The Fedora 20 virt test day was held October 8th, we had 10 contributers
fill out results, more contributing on IRC, and at least 25 bugs reported
over the course of the week. Results are recorded at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-10-08_Virtualization#Test_Re...
Thanks to everyone that helped out!
Libguestfs 1.24
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Libguestfs 1.24 was released on October 19th. Big developments:
- virt-builder: a new tool for building virtual machine images
rapidly and securely:
http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html
- User Mode Linux can be used as an alternative backend (ie. instead
of KVM)
- virt-resize & virt-sysprep can now use URIs to work on remote disks
- many new virt-sysprep operations
- bindings for the Go programming language
- support for the systemd journal
- support for setting the qemu caching mode
- ARM (32 bit) and PPC64 are not fully supported
Full release announcement:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-October/msg00040.html
Libvirt 1.1.3
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Libvirt 1.1.3 was released on October 1st. Highlights:
- VMware: Initial VMware Fusion support and various improvements
- add new public API virConnectGetCPUModelNames
- various libxl driver improvements
- LXC many container driver improvement
- ARM cpu improvements
Full release announcement:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-October/msg00005.html
Bug stats
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Total bugs on Oct 3rd: 223
Total bugs on Nov 4th: 236
Steady bug increase as F20 picks up steam. Stats breakdown:
By release:
* Fedora 18 : 55
* Fedora 19 : 113
* Fedora 20 : 45
* Fedora rawhide : 23
By package:
* edk2 : 2
* gnome-boxes : 36
* ipxe : 3
* libguestfs : 7
* libosinfo : 7
* libseccomp : 1
* libvirt : 47
* libvirt-java : 1
* libvirt-sandbox : 16
* netcf : 7
* qemu : 37
* seabios : 1
* spice-gtk : 1
* usbredir : 1
* virt-dmesg : 1
* virt-manager : 22
* virt-viewer : 10
* virt-what : 2
* virtio-win : 5
* xen : 12
* xorg-x11-drv-cirrus: 2
* xorg-x11-drv-qxl : 15
By status:
* ASSIGNED : 22
* MODIFIED : 1
* NEW : 198
* ON_QA : 4
* POST : 11
Thanks,
Cole