Hi all, here's highlights of Fedora virt ongoings for January:
Fedora 19 Features ==================
The Fedora 19 feature freeze was January 29th, and there are a handful of virt relevant features:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virtio_RNG - paravirt RNG device for VMs
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Storage_Migration - Migrate a running VM and storage to a new host, no shared storage required
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Device_Failover - Migrate a guest with an assigned physical device, transparently degrading to use of an emulated device.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/QXLKMSSupport - KMS support for QXL, gives us plymouth in guests, stepping stone to spice 3D
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NetworkManagerBridging - Native bridge support in NetworkManager, and make it play nice with virt.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/oVirtEngine_3.2 - Update to oVirt Engine 3.2
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenStack_Grizzly - Openstack Grizzly release
For the curious, these two pages contain all the proposed features:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:FeatureAnnounced https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:FeatureAcceptedF19
As of now there still isn't a Fedora 19 schedule, but my guess is that the GA release will at least be after May.
Virt Preview now for F18 ========================
virt-preview, the optional repo providing latest virt packages from rawhide for the current stable Fedora release, is now building packages against Fedora 18. F17 support is discontinued. For more info on virt-preview, see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
Libvirt 1.0.2 released ======================
Libvirt 1.0.2 was released on January 30. Featured items from the changelog:
* LXC improvements (Daniel P. Berrange) * S390 architecture improvement (Viktor Mihajlovski) * Power architecture improvement (Li Zhang) * large Coverity report cleanups and associated bug fixes (John Ferlan) * virTypedParams* APIs to helps with those data structures (Jiri Denemark)
libvirt-1.0.2 is in virt-preview and rawhide now, however this release broke the python bindings, and a fix is still pending:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt/2013-February/003576.html
Additionally, there were new libvirt maintenance releases for F16, F17, and F18 libvirt versions, primarily to fix a nasty CVE. Please update ASAP:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt-0.10.2.3-1.fc18 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt-0.9.11.9-1.fc17 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt-0.9.6.4-1.fc16
Bug stats =========
Bug count on Jan 06 2013: 248 Bug count on Feb 03 2013: 264
Not surprisingly, with F18 hitting the streets there's been a sizable uptick in F18 bugs:
By release: * Fedora 16 : 36 * Fedora 17 : 96 * Fedora 18 : 105 * Fedora rawhide : 27
However with F16 going EOL this month, that will 'fix' a big handful. Of course, if anyone out there has any bugs filed against F16 that they are still hitting on F17 and F18, please change the version soon or they will be mass closed.
Package breakdown:
By package: * gnome-boxes : 16 * gtk-vnc : 3 * ipxe : 2 * libcacard : 2 * libguestfs : 2 * libosinfo : 11 * libseccomp : 1 * libvirt : 51 * libvirt-cim : 3 * libvirt-glib : 2 * libvirt-qmf : 1 * libvirt-sandbox : 12 * netcf : 4 * qemu : 77 * spice-gtk : 4 * spice-vdagent : 1 * usbredir : 1 * virt-dmesg : 1 * virt-manager : 24 * virt-v2v : 4 * virt-viewer : 6 * virt-what : 2 * xen : 12 * xorg-x11-drv-cirrus: 4 * xorg-x11-drv-qxl : 18
Bugs of note ============
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873845 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892075 Couple common crashes in qemu related to spice, that accumulated quite a few duplicates. Fixed with current F18 packages as of last week, so make sure you're up to date!
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875348 Another spice related crash, this one affecting clients like boxes, virt-viewer, and virt-manager. There's a known fix, just not pushed yet.
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810040 fprintd would crash GDM if a VM didn't have a USB bus, as is the default in hyper-v and xen PV. Had the dubious honor of being the last fix accepted into F18!
Thanks, Cole
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Cole Robinson