[fedora-virt] Fedora virt status

[Justin M. Forbes]

Fedora 13
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  The Fedora 13 alpha should be available real soon now. Testing of virt
  features is appreciated.  Now it is time to widdle down the bug list
  and get F13 as clean as possible. We are scheduling a Virt Test day,
  look for more details in the next status email.

  It should be noted that non frozen rawhide means that changes for F-13
  now need to happen in the F-13 branch, as well as devel.

  F-13 schedule:

  2010-03-23  Beta (Final Development) Freeze (23 days)
  2010-04-29  Compose Release Candidate (60 days)


Fedora Cloud SIG
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  Progressis being made towards updated Fedora in the EC2 cloud, and
  There is some interest in supporting the IBM Cloud. More details
  can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG

F12 Virt Preview
================

  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:

  qemu-0.12.3-3:
  - Update to 0.12.3 upstream
  - vhost-net migration/restart fixes
  - Add F-13 machine type
  - virtio-serial fixes


Bugs
====

  DOOM-O-METER: 244 bugs open 2 weeks ago, holding at 244 now.

  Feature Freeze has happened, so it is time to really start attacking
  this bug list! Anyone wishing to help can find more information at:
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_bugs

= 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 2.6.32 kernel update.   Other issues are holding this update back.

== kvm ==

  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.
    This requires kernel patches, so timeframe coinsides with the 2.6.32
    update for F12.

  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. 
    Feedback suggests that this is no longer an issue in the 0.12.x qemu
    packages.  These packages are available in virt-preview and will be
    updates to F-12 soon.

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544940
    reattach virtio to rhel{5,6} guests will cause qemu-kvm crash