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

[Jan Kiszka]

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.

Jan

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