Fedora 13
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Feature Submission deadline for F-13 was earlier this week, we have some
exciting new features submitted. As we move towards F-13, we are getting
really close to the Feature Freeze deadline.
F-13 schedule:
2010-02-09 Feature Freeze (4 days)
2010-02-16 Alpha Freeze (11 days)
2010-03-23 Beta (Final Development) Freeze (46 days)
2010-04-29 Compose Release Candidate (83 days)
Fedora Cloud SIG
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A new Fedora Cloud SIG has been created focused to make Fedora
successful on all major cloud platforms, public and private. More
details can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG
F12 Virt Preview
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As was announced before, the virt-preview repository for F12 users wishing
to test out the latest virtualization bits is available. Instructions for
using this repository can be found at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
Recent updates in this repository include:
gpxe-1.0.0-1:
- bugfix release, also adds wireless card support
- bnx2 builds again
- drop our one patch
libvirt-0.7.6-1:
- upstream release of 0.7.6
- Use QEmu new device adressing when possible
- Implement CPU topology support for QEMU driver
- Implement SCSI controller hotplug/unplug for QEMU
- Implement support for multi IQN
- a lot of fixes and improvements
libvirt-java-0.4.2-1:
- Changed Scheduled Parameters to be a Union instead of a Struct.
- Better Pointer mappings in the error callback
qemu-0.12.2-5:
- Avoid creating too large iovecs in multiwrite merge (#559717)
- Don't try to set max_kernel_pages during ksm init on newer kernels (#558281)
- Add logfile options for ksmtuned debug.
Bugs
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DOOM-O-METER: 230 bugs open 1 week ago, up to 238 now.
Many of these are duplicates from abrt auto filing, but We still have a
lot of work to do!
= Important =
== kernel ==
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545851
KVM/networking-related crash
A patch has been submitted upstream, and this should be fixed with
the next kernel update.
== kvm ==
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559717
KVM/Qemu 0.12.2 guest: WARNING: at block/blk-core.c:336
This has been fixed in the most recent rawhide and virt-preview builds.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555788
SIGTRAP leakage between separate virtual machines
Patches have been posted for this, and a resolution is coming soon.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478317
almost 9 thousand syscalls per second while idle
This is believed to be a result of the USB Tablet device, but several
users have noticed high host CPU usage while guests were idle.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544339
Segfaults logged from kvm (qemu-kvm) resulting in guest sudden crash
and data loss
A number of users complaining of guests crashing and sometimes taking
the host with them. This appears to be related to sound emulation.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544940
reattach virtio to rhel{5,6} guests will cause qemu-kvm crash
== libvirt ==
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547045
libvirt can generate bogus node device XML
libvirt has a function for escaping XML strings that we clearly forgot to
use here. In addition though we probably need to check where this garbage
is coming from, because in this particular case we probably shouldn't be
including the element at all.