[fedora-virt] Fedora Virt Status

[Justin M. Forbes]

Fedora 13
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  Fedora 13 is released and in the wild.  Thanks to everyone for all of
  your hard work.  Now it is time to start looking forward to Fedora 14.
  It is a good time to start looking at the feature process and planning.

Fedora 14
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  2010-07-13  Feature Submission Deadline (47 Days)
  2010-07-27  Feature Freeze (61 Days)
  2010-08-03  Alpha Freeze (68 Days)
  2010-09-07  Beta Freeze (103 Days)
  2010-10-12  Final Freeze (138 Days)
  2010-10-26  Fedora 14 Release (152 Days)

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

Virt Preview
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  As was announced before, the virt-preview repository for F12 users wishing
  to test out the latest F13 virtualization bits is available.  Additionally we 
  have created a virt-preview repository for F13 users wishing to test out
  packages destined for F14 virtualization. Instructions for using these
  repositories can be found at:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository

  Recent updates in this repository include:

  F-12:
  ====

  libvirt-0.7.7-4:
  - Fix nodedev XML conversion errors (bz 591262)
  - Fix PCI xml decimal parsing (bz 582752)
  - Fix CDROM media connect/eject (bz 582005)
  - Always report qemu startup output on error (bz 581381)
  - Fix crash from 'virsh dominfo' if secdriver disabled (bz 581166)
  - Fix slow storage volume allocation (bz 582356)

F13 Bugs
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  DOOM-O-METER: 83 bugs are open against F13 virtualization packages,
  65 are not fixed with pending releases.

  The final release has brought a larger audience to Fedora 13 and we
  need to spend some time focusing on these bugs before directing all
  of our attention to Fedora 14.  If you would like to help out, you can
  find more information at:
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_bugs

= Important =

== kvm ==

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478317
    almost 9 thousand syscalls per second while idle

    A patch has been posted which may resolve the issue. Look for an update
    after further testing.

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

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583850
    qemu-kvm often crashes crashes when connecting vnc

    The real bug is that vnc_refresh_server_surface assumes that the
    display width is a multiple of 16.  If it's not, then it accesses
    beyond the end of the row by a few bytes.  On all but the last row,
    this is mostly harmless (it can result in unnecessarily marking the end
    of the row dirty), but on the last row, it copies over heap metadata.

    Patch is pending for this.