From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKkQ0-00081s-Tl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:19:16 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKkPv-0007zt-85 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:19:15 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59655 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKkPv-0007zj-0O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:19:11 -0500 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:39486) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NKkPu-0005rn-QS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:19:11 -0500 Received: from d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.228]) by e34.co.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id nBG3DZMx002154 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:13:35 -0700 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by d03relay03.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id nBG3J3u4189866 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:19:03 -0700 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id nBG3J3Bc000931 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:19:03 -0700 Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:19:00 -0600 From: Ryan Harper Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE][Call-For-Testing] Release 0.12.0-rc1 of QEMU Message-ID: <20091216031900.GN25491@us.ibm.com> References: <4B264659.80201@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B264659.80201@linux.vnet.ibm.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" * Anthony Liguori [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 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 ryanh@us.ibm.com