[fedora-virt] Where is update to Fedora-13 for Qemu-KVM?

Justin M. Forbes jmforbes at linuxtx.org
Mon Nov 8 02:18:21 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 18:48 -0500, KC8LDO wrote:
> I've asked on the Fedora mailing list, send email to everybody I could find 
> at Red Hat etc about this. I got one reply a few weeks ago from a Mr. Justin 
> Forbes that read in part :
> 
> _____________________________________________________________________
> 
> It will be in the next update for F13.  I mistakinely thought it had made
> the 0.12.5 stable release upstream, so did not apply seperately.  In the
> meantime, there is a workaround, or you can use the F14 qemu from
> virt-preview.
> 
> Justin
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> After that I haven't got any further response. Also the update as far as I 
> can tell has never appeared either.
> 
> So the question is where are the updates to fix the boot failure problems 
> when installing
> Windows XP and 2000 in a VM for Fedora-13?
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=579348
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/586175
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_bugs
> 

The truth is, they haven't happened yet.  There was focus on F14 as we
moved towards release, and I have not had time to roll another F13
package specifically for this issue.  I apologize, when I said next
release, I didn't mean to imply that one was just around the corner.
Now that F14 is shipped, I do plan an F13 update soon.  

Justin



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