[fedora-virt] Fedora virt status September 2013

[Cole Robinson]

Hey all, here are some notes and about Fedora and virt happenings for September.


  Fedora 20
  =========

After an additional week delay, the Fedora 20 alpha was released on
September 24th:

get it: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
announce email:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2013-September/001248.html
common bugs: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs

I upgraded with yum and there were very few hiccups. Another solid alpha :)

The remaining F20 schedule:

    Oct 08: Virt Test Day
    Oct 15: Beta deadline
    Oct 29: Beta release
    Dec 03: GA release


  Fedora 20 virt test day
  =======================

The virt test day is next Tuesday, October 8th! The landing page is at:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-10-08_Virtualization

If you can spare some time, please consider helping out. We will have
an F20 live cd you can use to test inside a virtual machine on F19,
no need to update. I'll send out a more elaborate pitch later this week.


  Libvirt 1.1.2
  =============

Libvirt 1.1.2 was released on September 2nd. Highlights:

- various improvements to libxl driver (Jim Fehlig, Bamvor Jian Zhang),
- systemd integration improvements (Daniel P. Berrange, Mooli Tayer),
- Add flag to BaselineCPU API to return detailed CPU features (Don Dugger),
- Introduce a virt-login-shell binary (Dan Walsh),
- conf: add startupPolicy attribute for harddisk (Guannan Ren)


  Bug stats
  =========

Total bugs on Sep 2nd : 211
Total bugs on Oct 3rd : 223

F20 bugs are coming in fast and furious now, but quite a few are fixed
in updates-testing or waiting in POST for a build, so not much change
from last month.

By release:
    * Fedora 18          : 60
    * Fedora 19          : 114
    * Fedora 20          : 32
    * Fedora rawhide     : 17

By package:
    * edk2               : 2
    * gnome-boxes        : 33
    * ipxe               : 3
    * libguestfs         : 7
    * libosinfo          : 7
    * libseccomp         : 1
    * libvirt            : 42
    * libvirt-sandbox    : 21
    * netcf              : 7
    * qemu               : 37
    * seabios            : 1
    * spice-gtk          : 1
    * usbredir           : 1
    * virt-dmesg         : 1
    * virt-manager       : 17
    * virt-viewer        : 9
    * virt-what          : 2
    * virtio-win         : 5
    * xen                : 9
    * xorg-x11-drv-cirrus: 2
    * xorg-x11-drv-qxl   : 15

By status:
    * ASSIGNED           : 21
    * NEW                : 172
    * ON_QA              : 18
    * POST               : 12


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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1011936
Common spice crash on F20

Already seen quite a few duplicates of this crash, but a build was
done today and his heading for updates-testing.


Thanks,
Cole