Hey all, here are some notes on Fedora virt happenings for May.
Fedora 19 =========
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 ========
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 =============
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 =========
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
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Cole Robinson