* Anthony Liguori <aligu...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-12-14 08:33]: > The QEMU team is pleased to announce the availability of the 0.12.0-rc2 > release. This is the second release candidate for the 0.12.0 release. > This release is not intended for production use. > > Testing release candidates is a great way to contribute to QEMU and > improve the quality of the 0.12.0 release. > > The current plan is to release 0.12.0 on Friday, Dec 18th. Depending on > the severity of bug fixes we get between now and then, we may do another > release candidate in the middle of the week. > > For this release candidate, we would appreciate as much testing and > feedback as possible, particularly the following features which have > seen a lot of activity since the 0.11.0 release: > > - live migration; especially with non-x86 and complex machine > configurations > - block device migration > - exotic x86 guests that may interact with the BIOS in special ways > - PXE booting > - SCSI disk support > - any tools that depend on parsing monitor output > > It can be downloaded from Savannah at: > > http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/qemu/qemu-0.12.0-rc2.tar.gz
0.12.0-rc2 has some issues with WinXP.64 install. It hangs early during the install with trying to start Windows. No further progress is made and it chews 100% cpu. This seems to be kvm module version related. On up-to-date Fedora 11.64 install 0.12.0-rc1 works, -rc2 doesn't Git bisect between -rc1 and rc2 points to: commit 066263f37701687c64af9d8825e3376d069ebfd4 Author: Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@amd.com> Date: Mon Dec 7 11:58:02 2009 +0100 cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel Reverting this fixes the problem. On older kvm modules (2.6.28 from Ubuntu Jaunty) I can't seem to find any version of recent qemu that works with winxp.64 install. Switching to kvm-kmod packages: 2.6.32 modules work fine with 0.12.0-rc2, no issues at all 2.6.30 modules fail, reverting the above commit doesn't help, seems to be in the same boat as 2.6.28 modules 2.6.31.5 (roughly equivalent to Fedora11 modules) work on -rc1, fail on rc2, reverting above commit fixes -rc2. Maybe some other folks are seeing this issue and we can track down what the real issue is. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu Filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/497273 -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx ry...@us.ibm.com
