Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.1-rc3 release

[Max Filippov]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2012-05-30 10:42, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-05-30 04:32, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> On 05/22/2012 11:09 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> On 2012-05-22 11:32, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
>>>>> third 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-rc3.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 are no known release blockers in -rc3.
>>>>
>>>> [1] may not block but is fairly annoying due to [2] when using pulseaudio.
>>>>
>>>> Then I have two smaller MSI fixes [3,4] pending that need not have to
>>>> wait for 1.1.1 IMHO.
>>>
>>> Can you split them out of that larger series then?
>>
>> Done.
>>
>>>
>>>> Finally, I just recalled that writing out 1.0 or older vmstate formats
>>>> is still broken [5,6]. Was the plan now to adjust the stable versions
>>>> instead?
>>>
>>> You mean, migrating to older than 1.0 instances is broken?
>>
>> If qemu-1.1 with -M pc-1.0 (or older) writes a vmstate, the
>> corresponding previous qemu version won't be able to read it due to the
>> reasons I cited.
>
> After -rc4 is out now: ping to both topics.
>
> Also, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/152761 should go
> in before the final release.

And I'd also ask to consider including
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/152772
and
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/152748/focus=152747

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max