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Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE][Call-For-Testing] Release 0.12.0-rc1 of QEMU
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Ryan Harper |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE][Call-For-Testing] Release 0.12.0-rc1 of QEMU |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:19:00 -0600 |
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* Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> [2009-12-14 08:33]:
> The QEMU team is pleased to announce the availability of the 0.12.0-rc2
> release. This is the second release candidate for the 0.12.0 release.
> This release is not intended for production use.
>
> Testing release candidates is a great way to contribute to QEMU and
> improve the quality of the 0.12.0 release.
>
> The current plan is to release 0.12.0 on Friday, Dec 18th. Depending on
> the severity of bug fixes we get between now and then, we may do another
> release candidate in the middle of the week.
>
> For this release candidate, we would appreciate as much testing and
> feedback as possible, particularly the following features which have
> seen a lot of activity since the 0.11.0 release:
>
> - live migration; especially with non-x86 and complex machine
> configurations
> - block device migration
> - exotic x86 guests that may interact with the BIOS in special ways
> - PXE booting
> - SCSI disk support
> - any tools that depend on parsing monitor output
>
> It can be downloaded from Savannah at:
>
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/qemu/qemu-0.12.0-rc2.tar.gz
0.12.0-rc2 has some issues with WinXP.64 install. It hangs early during
the install with trying to start Windows. No further progress is made
and it chews 100% cpu.
This seems to be kvm module version related. On up-to-date Fedora 11.64
install 0.12.0-rc1 works, -rc2 doesn't Git bisect between -rc1 and rc2
points to:
commit 066263f37701687c64af9d8825e3376d069ebfd4
Author: Andre Przywara <address@hidden>
Date: Mon Dec 7 11:58:02 2009 +0100
cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel
Reverting this fixes the problem.
On older kvm modules (2.6.28 from Ubuntu Jaunty) I can't seem to find
any version of recent qemu that works with winxp.64 install. Switching
to kvm-kmod packages:
2.6.32 modules work fine with 0.12.0-rc2, no issues at all
2.6.30 modules fail, reverting the above commit doesn't help, seems to
be in the same boat as 2.6.28 modules
2.6.31.5 (roughly equivalent to Fedora11 modules) work on -rc1, fail on
rc2, reverting above commit fixes -rc2.
Maybe some other folks are seeing this issue and we can track down what
the real issue is.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu
Filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/497273
--
Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
address@hidden
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