Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE][Call-For-Testing] Release 0.12.0-rc1 of QEMU

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:43:03PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> The QEMU team is pleased to announce the availability of the 0.12.0-rc1
> release.  This is the first 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 a 0.12.0-rc2 on Friday, Dec. 11th 
> followed by the final 0.12.0 release on Wednesday, Dec 15th.
> 
> 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

There's a small bug in SCSI drive hotplug where QEMU is not assigning
unique block device names when you leave the name unspecified

$ /home/berrange/usr/qemu-0.12/bin/qemu -vnc :1 -monitor stdio -device lsi
QEMU 0.11.91 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) drive_add 0:0:4  file=/home/berrange/mcdboot.img,if=scsi
OK bus 0, unit 0
(qemu) drive_add 0:0:4  file=/home/berrange/mcdboot.img,if=scsi
OK bus 0, unit 1
(qemu) drive_add 0:0:4  file=/home/berrange/mcdboot.img,if=scsi
OK bus 0, unit 2
(qemu) drive_add 0:0:4  file=/home/berrange/mcdboot.img,if=scsi
OK bus 0, unit 3
(qemu) info block
ide1-cd0: type=cdrom removable=1 locked=0 [not inserted]
floppy0: type=floppy removable=1 locked=0 [not inserted]
sd0: type=floppy removable=1 locked=0 [not inserted]
scsi0-hd0: type=hd removable=0 file=/home/berrange/mcdboot.img ro=1 drv=raw 
encrypted=0
scsi0-hd0: type=hd removable=0 file=/home/berrange/mcdboot.img ro=1 drv=raw 
encrypted=0
scsi0-hd0: type=hd removable=0 file=/home/berrange/mcdboot.img ro=1 drv=raw 
encrypted=0
scsi0-hd0: type=hd removable=0 file=/home/berrange/mcdboot.img ro=1 drv=raw 
encrypted=0
(qemu) 


Notice they are all 'scsi0-hd0', instead of scsi0-hd1, scsi0-hd2, etc

(Ignore the fact that i attached the same underlying file many times :-)

Regards,
Daniel
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