From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rcih5-00061o-Jj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:16:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rcih3-00059z-ND for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:16:15 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62009) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rcih3-00059R-GP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:16:13 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:16:02 +0000 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20111219191602.GA3425@redhat.com> References: <4EECB1B0.7050404@codemonkey.ws> <4EECB3C5.6060608@codemonkey.ws> <20111217152514.GM2520@amd.home.annexia.org> <4EECC227.4060904@codemonkey.ws> <20111217164956.GA16848@morn.localdomain> <20111219103101.GB27938@redhat.com> <4EEF7595.7060301@codemonkey.ws> <20111219174307.GB2558@redhat.com> <4EEF7C53.6050800@codemonkey.ws> <20111219190454.GD2909@amd.home.annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111219190454.GD2909@amd.home.annexia.org> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] insmod virtio-blk is broken in qemu 1.0 Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Richard W.M. Jones" Cc: "seabios@seabios.org" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Max Filippov , Kevin O'Connor , Avi Kivity , Amit Shah , jforbes@fedoraproject.org, Gerd Hoffmann On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 07:04:54PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:02:59PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > I would like to point out that August -> October is a pretty long > > time period for a regression like this to exist. I think that > > really indicates that the primary problem is testing, not frequency > > of SeaBIOS updates. > > Fair point. > > My understanding is we're going to switch to having qemu.git in Fedora > Rawhide, which means that libguestfs will always be testing the > 'perfect storm' of qemu + kernel + glibc from git (once glibc get > their act together anyhow, just qemu + kernel at first). > > We usually do a build and a comprehensive test at least once a week, > often a few times a week, so we would have picked this up much sooner. That wouldn't actually catch this problem, because when we build QEMU in Fedora, we never use the SeaBIOS that QEMU includes in GIT. Fedora always ships the newest SeaBIOS release available from upstream, regardless of what QEMU includes. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|