[fedora-virt] Fedora virt status July 2013

[Cole Robinson]

Hi all, here are some Fedora virt status bits for July.


  Fedora 20
  =========

The 'Change' submission deadline came and went, and 3 virt changes
were accepted:

    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Virt_ACLs
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Virt_Manager_Snapshots
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Virt_ARM_on_x86

Here's the remaining schedule:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Schedule
  Aug 06: Change freeze, must be functional
  Aug 20: Alpha deadline
  Sep 03: Alpha release
  Sep 24: Beta deadline
  Oct 08: Beta release
  Nov 12: GA release

The change freeze next week is also when F20 branches off from
rawhide, so F20 will start to get some differentiation.


  Fedora 17 EOL
  =============

Fedora 17 is End-of-Life now, which means no more updates are being
shipped. If you're still on Fedora 17, now's a good time make the
jump to F19!


  libvirt 1.1.0 and 1.1.1
  =======================

Two libvirt releases this month: 1.1.0 on July 1st 2013 and 1.1.1 on
July 30th 2013. Highlights:

1.1.0:
* Extensible migration APIs (Jiri Denemark)
* Add a policy kit access control driver (Daniel P. Berrange)
* various improvements in the Xen driver (Jim Fehlig and Marek
Marczykowski-Górecki)
* improve networking support on BSD (Roman Bogorodskiy)
* agent based vCPU hotplug support (Peter Krempa)

1.1.1:
* Adding device removal or deletion events (Jiri Denemark),
* Introduce new domain create APIs to pass pre-opened FDs to LXC (Daniel P.
Berrange),
* Add interface versions for Xen 4.3 (Stefan Bader),
* Add new public API virDomainSetMemoryStatsPeriod (John Ferlan),
* Various LXC improvements (Daniel P. Berrange and Gao feng)


  seabios 1.7.3
  =============

seabios 1.7.3 was released on July 7th and is currently in rawhide and
virt-preview.

- Initial support for using SeaBIOS as a UEFI CSM
- Support for detecting and using ACPI reboot ports.
- Non-standard floppy sizes now work again with recent QEMU versions.
- Several bug fixes and code cleanups


  Bug stats
  =========

Bug count on Jul 1 2013 : 266
Bug count on Aug 1 2013 : 218

Quite the substantial drop this month, but that's largely due to the
F17 EOL mass closings, and some housekeeping keeping throughout the
month in anticipation of the mass closing.

By release:
    * Fedora 18          : 86
    * Fedora 19          : 102
    * Fedora rawhide     : 30

By package:
    * gnome-boxes        : 33
    * ipxe               : 2
    * libguestfs         : 8
    * libosinfo          : 7
    * libvirt            : 38
    * libvirt-sandbox    : 21
    * netcf              : 7
    * qemu               : 34
    * seabios            : 1
    * spice-gtk          : 2
    * spice-vdagent      : 1
    * usbredir           : 1
    * virt-dmesg         : 1
    * virt-manager       : 29
    * virt-viewer        : 7
    * virt-what          : 3
    * virtio-win         : 3
    * xen                : 4
    * xorg-x11-drv-cirrus: 4
    * xorg-x11-drv-qxl   : 12

By status:
    * ASSIGNED           : 18
    * MODIFIED           : 2
    * NEW                : 188
    * POST               : 10


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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980254
Host crash when shutting down KVM VMs

A bad patch for 880035 was causing pretty reliable host crashes when
shutting down VMs. At least F18 and F19 were affected.


- Cole