Here are some Fedora virt happenings for December.
Fedora 20 released! ===================
Fedora 20 was officially released on December 17th:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F20_release_announcement http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs
There was some last minute issues with the 'fedup' update tool, but they should be resolved now. Just make sure you fully update F19 before trying to upgrade to F20!
Since F20 is out, virt-preview for F19 will no longer be receiving new builds.
FWIW, no F21 schedule has been posted yet.
Libvirt 1.2.0, separate python bindings =======================================
libvirt 1.2.0 was released on Monday December 2nd 2013. Major changes:
- Add support for gluster pool (Eric Blake) - Split out python binding (Daniel P. Berrange) - vbox: add support for 4.3 APIs (Ryota Ozaki)
Per the second item there, the libvirt python bindings are now a standalone project. This was mainly done to simplify distributing these bindings via pip which was of interest to Openstack.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-announce/2013-December/msg00000.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-announce/2013-December/msg00001.html
seabios-1.7.4 =============
seabios 1.7.4 was released on December 23rd. Highlights from the changelog:
- Support for obtaining ACPI tables directly from QEMU. - Initial support for XHCI USB controllers (initially for QEMU only). - Support for booting from "pvscsi" devices on QEMU.
This will soon be heading to rawhide.
Bug stats =========
Total bugs on 2013-12-02 : 190 Total bugs on 2014-01-05 : 166
note: I dropped gnome-boxes from the stats. There isn't much perceptible bug triaging happening with that component, so the numbers pretty much grow without bound until Fedora goes end of life. Which makes it not all that interesting to track here. 'spice' was added, it should have been there the whole time.
I also did a lot of F18 bug closing/confirming/deferring in preparation of F18 end-of-life on
By release: * Fedora 18 : 7 * Fedora 19 : 75 * Fedora 20 : 66 * Fedora rawhide : 18
By package: * edk2 : 1 * gtk-vnc : 1 * ipxe : 4 * libguestfs : 7 * libosinfo : 1 * libvirt : 42 * libvirt-sandbox : 9 * netcf : 6 * openbios : 1 * qemu : 24 * seabios : 2 * spice : 11 * spice-gtk : 3 * virt-dmesg : 1 * virt-manager : 20 * virt-viewer : 7 * virt-what : 2 * virtio-win : 1 * xen : 10 * xorg-x11-drv-qxl : 13
By status: * ASSIGNED : 11 * NEW : 142 * ON_QA : 1 * POST : 12
Bugs of note ============
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031696 libvirt-guests.service is broken in F20
Still waiting for some guidance from systemd folks, no solution yet.
Thanks, Cole
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 10:58:57AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
Here are some Fedora virt happenings for December.
Fedora 20 released!
Fedora 20 was officially released on December 17th:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F20_release_announcement http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs
There was some last minute issues with the 'fedup' update tool, but they should be resolved now. Just make sure you fully update F19 before trying to upgrade to F20!
Also I found that 'yum' is pretty broken in the released Fedora 20 image. There was some problem with it being unable to resolve dependencies properly. After installing Fedora 20 from scratch, make sure you update yum first, before you update anything else.
Since F20 is out, virt-preview for F19 will no longer be receiving new builds.
FWIW, no F21 schedule has been posted yet.
Looks like Fedora 21 is going to drag on ...
http://borntobeopen.blogspot.ru/2014/01/wheres-fedora-21-schedule.html
Rich.
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