Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.1-rc2 release

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 15.05.2012 18:04, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> Hi,
>
> On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of 
> the second release candidate for the QEMU 1.1 release.  This release 
> is meant for testing purposes and should not be used in a production 
> environment.
>
> http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.1.0-rc2.tar.bz2
>
> You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 1.1 release by testing 
> this release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
>
> The release plan for the 1.1 release is available at:
>
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.1
>
> And a detailed change log is available at:
>
> http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/Next
>
> Known Issues:
>
>  - There appears to be a failure in make check on some platforms.  
> This will be resolved in -rc3.
>

Just for the record: there are a lot more known issues.
Here is a small extract:

- SDL (zooming) and VNC both access uninitialized memory.
   SDL even writes out of bounds. Valgrind finds both kinds
   of defects easily.

- There are still several known memory leaks. For some of them
   patches were already sent to qemu-devel.

- There are known deficits in the emulations. Even the x86_64
   system emulation which is one of the best maintained emulations
   still causes a blue screen when running a 64 bit Windows guest
   in TCG mode, for example.

A lot was already done, but there still remains much work to be done :-)

Cheers,

Stefan Weil