Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.5.0-rc3 is now available

[Eric Blake]

On 12/08/2015 01:26 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 December 2015 at 00:16, Michael Roth <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
>> fourth release candidate for the QEMU 2.5 release.  This release is meant
>> for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.
>>
>>   http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.5.0-rc3.tar.bz2
>>
>> You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.5 release by testing this
>> release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:
>>
>>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
>>
>> The release plan for the 2.5 release is available at:
>>
>>   http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.5
> 
> My plan here is for us to fix only any absolutely showstopper
> bugs between here and release, so ideally an rc4 (if needed)
> at the end of the week and final release same-as-rc4 middle
> of the week after that.
> 
> Please make sure any such showstoppers are listed in the
> Planning page on the wiki so we don't overlook them.

I'm seeing a failure in qemu-iotests:

$ ./check -qcow2 028 041 043 139
028 4s ... - output mismatch (see 028.out.bad)
--- /home/eblake/qemu/tests/qemu-iotests/028.out        2015-09-11
20:55:26.540134408 -0600
+++ 028.out.bad 2015-12-10 17:17:34.286583734 -0700
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@

 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.copy', fmt=IMGFMT size=4294968832
backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base backing_fmt=IMGFMT
 (qemu)
-(qemu) info block-jobs
+info block-jobs
 Type backup, device disk: Completed 0 of 4294968832 bytes, speed limit
0 bytes/s
 info block-jobs
 No active jobs
041 52s ...
043 1s ...
139 3s ...
Failures: 028
Failed 1 of 4 tests

Seems relatively harmless, but flagging it anyway in case someone has a
quick fix (I'm not familiar enough with qemu-iotests to pop out my own
fix today).

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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