[fedora-virt] Fedora virt status August 2012

[Cole Robinson]

Howdy all, here are some Fedora virt status bits for August.

  Fedora 18
  =========

Fedora 18 has slipped a few weeks due to ongoing trouble with some blocker
bugs that release engineering wants fixed before the alpha goes out:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000970.html

The current F18 schedule:

  Sep 11: Alpha release
  Oct 02: Beta change deadline
  Oct 04: Virtualization Test Day
  Oct 16: Beta Release
  Nov 05: Final Change Deadline
  Nov 20: GA Release

Unfortunately this means the scheduled virt test day is no longer after the
beta release, but thankfully still after the beta change deadline.


  QEMU 1.2 Release Approaching
  ============================

QEMU is moving towards the 1.2 release, currently scheduled for this
Wednesday, September 5th:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.2

If you want a sneak peak at what will eventually be the 1.2 changelog, see:

http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/Next

Currently QEMU 1.2 rc1 is available in rawhide and F18.


  libvirt 0.10 release
  ====================

On August 29th, libvirt 0.10.0 was released! The release highlights:

- agent: add qemuAgentArbitraryCommand() for general qemu agent command
- Introduce virDomainPinEmulator and virDomainGetEmulatorPinInfo functions
- network: use firewalld instead of iptables, when available
- network: make network driver vlan-aware
- esx: Implement network driver
- driver for parallels hypervisor
- Various LXC improvements
- Add virDomainGetHostname

However there were a few serious issues in the release, so a 0.10.1 release
followed soon after with several important bug fixes:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-August/msg01848.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-August/msg02028.html

0.10.1 is currently in rawhide. F18 has 0.10.0 rc2, and will have 0.10.1
fairly soon, once an updated netcf makes it to F18 stable.


  Reviving QEMU PPC, Sparc
  ========================

Following the prerequisite work done in July, qemu-system-sparc and
qemu-system-ppc packages are now available in F18 and rawhide. See the package
list here:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=350988

Additionally, KVM is now enabled for all targets that support it. This doesn't
change anything for the default fedora packages, but it allows the Fedora PPC
folks to get a KVM enabled qemu-system-ppc in their package builds.


  Bug stats
  =========

Bug count on Aug 02 2012: 208
Bug count on Sep 03 2012: 225

Another decent bump, with over half in libvirt. But there are definitely some
easy close candidates and a handful sitting in POST waiting for a build.

By release:
    * Fedora 16          : 69
    * Fedora 17          : 111
    * Fedora 18          : 11
    * Fedora rawhide     : 34

By package:
    * gnome-boxes        : 12
    * gtk-vnc            : 4
    * ipxe               : 2
    * kvm                : 1
    * libguestfs         : 6
    * libosinfo          : 1
    * libvirt            : 56
    * libvirt-cim        : 3
    * libvirt-qmf        : 1
    * libvirt-sandbox    : 3
    * netcf              : 4
    * python-virtinst    : 4
    * qemu               : 60
    * sgabios            : 1
    * spice-gtk          : 6
    * spice-vdagent      : 2
    * usbredir           : 1
    * virt-dmesg         : 1
    * virt-manager       : 18
    * virt-v2v           : 3
    * virt-viewer        : 8
    * virt-what          : 2
    * xen                : 11
    * xorg-x11-drv-cirrus: 3
    * xorg-x11-drv-qxl   : 12


  Bugs of note
  ============

* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853408

libguestfs tickling a qemu 1.2rc1 crash in character device handling

Rich tracked down a good amount of info but no fix available yet.

Thanks,
Cole