Hey all, here are some notes on Fedora virt happenings for May.
Fedora 19
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Fedora 19 beta was released right on time this past Tuesday. If you haven't
updated yet, now's a good time!
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F19_Beta_release_announcement
Here's the schedule going forward:
- Jun 18: Final change deadline
- Jul 02: GA release
So by this time next month F19 should be wrapped and waiting to be shipped :)
Fedora virt test days
=====================
Also on Tuesday we ran the F19 virt test day, and just yesterday was a Spice
specific test day. If you missed the dates but still want to help out, give
the test cases a spin and reports your results as instructed on landing page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-05-28_Virtualization
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-05-30_Spice
All in all they were pretty successful: I counted 19 related bugs filed by the
end of Tuesday, and quite a few more from the Spice test day. And thankfully
nothing too major was found :)
QEMU 1.5
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On Monday May 20th, QEMU 1.5 was released! Highlights from the changelog:
* KVM for ARM support
* A native GTK+ UI with internationalization support
* Experimental VFIO support for VGA passthrough
* Support for VMware PVSCSI and VMXNET3 device emulation
* CPU hot-add support
See the full human-readable changelog at:
http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.5
QEMU 1.5 is currently available in rawhide and virt-preview repo for F18 and
F19. For the time being we are sticking with QEMU 1.4 in Fedora 19 though.
Libvirt 1.0.5
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On Thursday May 2nd, Libvirt 1.0.5 was released! Highlights from the changelog:
* add support for NVRAM device
* Add XML config for resource partitions
* Add support for TPM
* NPIV storage migration support
This is the version we will be sticking with for F19.
Libguestfs 1.22
===============
And yet another major release this month: libguestfs 1.22 came out on May
24th. The big changes:
* access remote disk images over nbd, ssh, http, ftp, iscsi, ceph, and more
* syslinux and extlinux bootloader support
* full support for btrfs guests
* large performance improvements in virt-df and virt-alignment-scan tools
* new bash completions for tools
Check out the full release notes here:
http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-release-notes.1.html
Bug stats
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Bug count on Apr 29 2013 : 260
Total bugs today : 307
Quite a large jump this month, not unexpected given the test days and F19 beta
freeze holding up some ON_QA bugs from hitting stable. But we are also do for
some house cleaning.
By release:
* Fedora 17 : 75
* Fedora 18 : 128
* Fedora 19 : 83
* Fedora rawhide : 21
By package:
* bochs : 1
* gnome-boxes : 39
* gtk-vnc : 1
* ipxe : 4
* libcacard : 1
* libguestfs : 8
* libosinfo : 7
* libseccomp : 1
* libvirt : 59
* libvirt-cim : 2
* libvirt-glib : 2
* libvirt-qmf : 1
* libvirt-sandbox : 18
* netcf : 7
* qemu : 55
* seabios : 1
* spice-gtk : 4
* spice-vdagent : 2
* usbredir : 1
* vgabios : 1
* virt-dmesg : 2
* virt-manager : 36
* virt-top : 1
* virt-v2v : 5
* virt-viewer : 7
* virt-what : 2
* virtio-win : 5
* xen : 7
* xorg-x11-drv-cirrus: 5
* xorg-x11-drv-qxl : 22
Thanks,
Cole