Re: [Qemu-devel] status for rc3/release

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 18/07/2014 19:14, Dr. David Alan Gilbert ha scritto:
> * Dr. David Alan Gilbert (address@hidden) wrote:
>> * Peter Maydell (address@hidden) wrote:
>>> So we just released rc2. The proposed schedule has
>>> rc3 next Tuesday, with final release the Tuesday after.
>>>
>>> My thought is that we should aim for rc3 to add only
>>> a fairly small number of focussed and "safe" bugfixes,
>>> with the intention of making the final release be the
>>> same as rc3 if no showstopper bugs are discovered.
>>> If there are any showstoppers in rc3 we have a week
>>> to fix them and roll and test an rc4.
>>>
>>> Does it seem to other people like we're on track for that?
>>> I don't do the level of testing that I think Anthony had
>>> access to, so I'm reliant on those of you doing testing
>>> of the rc tarballs to report problems...
>>
>> There's something going on with migration; although we're
>> passing virt-test and my tests with google stress app test,
>> the thread on virtio-blk failures is one bad thing, and I've
>> got another failure case (possibly ide cdrom but not obvious)
>> that seems to be new somewhere between 2.0 and 2.1-rc0.
> 
> Mine I seem to have bisected down to fe680d0dac85e0f2d6c3b53838c250f6e0b1f49b
>     'exec: Limit translation limiting in address_space_translate to xen'
> 
> I'm told this doesn't necessarily make sense, but:
>                        works  62622c11f230edddcc47aabe2d988555bf125993
>                        broken fe680d0dac85e0f2d6c3b53838c250f6e0b1f49b
> 
> (confirmed by running each twice)
> and :
> b18a990c - good
> cab00a5aa - good
> 
> This is squashfs on a livecd falling apart after migration.

Can you give precise reproduction instructions before leaving?  Which OS
is being installed?

Paolo