[Qemu-devel] Fedora Virt status

[Justin M. Forbes]

Fedora 14
- We have 79 open bugs, 9 of which have fixes in awaiting updates.
- 1 bug has been closed in the last week
- Virt-preview has been opened for Fedora 14, more details below

Fedora 15
- Upcoming Deadlines:
  2011-01-25  Feature Submission Deadline (2 Weeks!)
  2011-02-08  Feature Freeze--Planning & Development Ends
  2011-02-08  Branch Fedora 15 from Rawhide-- Branch Freeze
  2011-02-15  Software String Freeze
  2011-02-15  Alpha Change Deadline
  2011-03-01  Alpha Release
  2011-03-15  Software Translation Deadline
  2011-03-22  Beta Change Deadline Features 100% Complete
  2011-04-05  Beta Release
  2011-04-25  Final Change Deadline
  2011-04-26  Compose 'Final' RC
  2011-05-10  Fedora 15 Final Release
- Feature submission deadline is fast approaching, let's get those feature
  submissions done.

  == Virt Preview Repository ==
  The virt-preview repository is now active for F14 users wishing to run the
  latest F15 virt packages on their stable F14 systems.  F13 virt-preview users
  will still get the latest F14 packages.  For details on how to run enable 
  virt-preview, please see:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
  Also note that virt-preview for F14 and later releases will live on the 
new(ish)
  repos.fedorapeople.org site.

  == Bugs of importance: ==
- 662380 Encrypted disks do not work
  Using virsh to create the encrypted disk, resulting disk is unusable.

- 655280 libvirt does not support vendor/product based USB device
  passthrough with QEMU

- 656943 KVM guest crashes if vmware vga option is used
  Reports of qemu crashing when a vga option is passed, using debian guests

- 589130 USB disk not marked as removable
  USB Mass storage devices are not marked as removable to a guest.
  Bug has been filed upstream as well there is some debate as to what is
  the correct behavior here.