[fedora-virt] qemu 1.1.0 in Rawhide, and planned backport to F17 (was: Re: Upgrading qemu to 1.1 in rawhide)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 05:26:45PM +0200, Frédéric Grelot wrote:
> 
> > I would like to backport this whole package to Fedora 17.
> > 
> > The reason is that the current F17 contains a rare data corruptor in
> > the qcow2 code (for details, see:
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2012-July/msg00020.html )
> > 
> > Large amounts of qcow2 code changed between 1.0 and 1.1.0 and instead
> > of cherry picking fixes, I think we need the new, tested, known-
> > working code.
> > 
> > Comments welcome.
>
> I will test it as soon as possible, but it may be a good idea to put
> it in virt-preview in order to allow more people to test it first?
> (Along with ceph and ceph-libs if necessary)

Can everyone do this ^^ now?  And if so, how?

Rich.

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