[fedora-virt] Fedora virt status July 2012

[Cole Robinson]

On 08/06/2012 09:25 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 08/03/2012 04:33 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Hey all, here are some Fedora virt status bits for July.
>>
> 
> Thanks for the status update!
> 
>>    Fedora 18
>>    =========
>>
>> We've started passing interesting dates for Fedora 18:
>>
>>    July   27: Feature submission deadline
>>    August 07: Feature freeze (majority of the feature is in fedora)
>>    August 14: Alpha change deadline
>>    Septem 19: Beta change deadline
>>    October 2: Beta Release
>>    October 4: Virtualization Test Day
>>
>> In time for the Feature freeze next week, we will be taking a snapshot of QEMU
>> upstream, and will eventually move to QEMU 1.2 when it is released later in
>> the month.
> 
> When rebasing to latest upstream, please keep in mind that the chardev
> flowcontrol
> patches are still not upstream, there is a reason the comment in the specfile
> says:
> "# The infamous chardev flow control patches"
> 
> So those need to be re-based (*), I can do that for you if you want, I was
> actually
> planning on doing that this morning, but when I saw this mail I thought it would
> be better to coordinate, to avoid doing the work twice.
> 
> *) Which is sometimes a non-trivial thing to do.
> 

Thanks for the offer Hans! I think things are all set though.

I pulled those patches in to git which made the process pretty
straightforward: there was one merge issue, and one new qemu_add_handlers
instance that needed fixing, but I think it's set now.

> So let me know which way you hand to handle this (me doing the rebase of those
> patches,
> or you doing it). Eitherway once we've a build I'll run some usb-redirection
> tests.
> 

Great, thanks! Please give the package in rawhide a whirl.

- Cole