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

[Jan Kiszka]

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.

Jan

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