[fedora-virt] Fedora virt status November 2013

[Cole Robinson]

Hey all, here are some fedora virt status bits for November.


  Fedora 20 almost wrapped
  ========================

The Fedora 20 schedule was rearranged a bit this month: there was another week
delay for the beta release, but the final release target date was unaltered.

The Fedora 20 Beta was released on November 12th, and the final change
deadline passed on November 26th. All that's left now is fixing exceptions and
blockers.

The final release is scheduled for December 10th!


  QEMU 1.7
  ========

QEMU 1.7 was tagged on Thursday November 26th and was just built for
rawhide/virt-preview. Highlights from the changelog:

- New monitor command "blockdev-add" for full featured block device hotplug.
- Performance and functionality improvements for USB 3.0.
- Many VFIO improvements
- ACPI tables can be generated by QEMU and can be used by firmware directly.
- Support creating and writing .vhdx images.
- qemu-img map: dump detailed image file metadata

Full changelog at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.7


  Libvirt 1.1.4
  =============

Libvirt 1.1.4 was released on November 4th 2013. Important changes:

 - Add support for AArch64 architecture
 - Don't link virt-login-shell against libvirt.so (CVE-2013-4400)
 - Close all non-stdio FDs in virt-login-shell (CVE-2013-4400)
 - Only allow 'stderr' log output when running setuid (CVE-2013-4400)
 - Fix perms for virConnectDomainXML{To,From}Native (CVE-2013-4401)

Full release announcement (mislabeled as libvirt 1.4.4):
http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-November/msg00065.html


  Bug stats
  =========

Total bugs on 2013-11-04 : 236
Total bugs on 2013-12-02 : 226

By release:
    * Fedora 18          : 54
    * Fedora 19          : 107
    * Fedora 20          : 39
    * Fedora rawhide     : 26

By package:
    * edk2               : 2
    * gnome-boxes        : 36
    * ipxe               : 4
    * libguestfs         : 9
    * libosinfo          : 7
    * libseccomp         : 1
    * libvirt            : 41
    * libvirt-java       : 1
    * libvirt-sandbox    : 15
    * netcf              : 8
    * qemu               : 32
    * seabios            : 1
    * spice-gtk          : 1
    * usbredir           : 1
    * virt-dmesg         : 1
    * virt-manager       : 17
    * virt-viewer        : 11
    * virt-what          : 2
    * virtio-win         : 5
    * xen                : 13
    * xorg-x11-drv-cirrus: 2
    * xorg-x11-drv-qxl   : 16

By status:
    * ASSIGNED           : 19
    * NEW                : 188
    * ON_QA              : 7
    * POST               : 12



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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031696
libvirt-guests.service is broken in F20

libvirt-guests.service is an init service that will do controlled shutdown or
managedsave of your running VMs when the host is shutdown. Unfortunately right
now it is totally broken in F20, as systemd doesn't know to wait for
libvirt-guests to run before it cleans up the VM cgroups, which kills the qemu
process. A solution is still pending


Thanks,
Cole