Planning/2.3/Testing

From QEMU

v2.3.0-rc0 status

Known issues

  • Migration of virtio-blk is broken (patch posted: "[PATCH] virtio-blk: correctly dirty guest memory")

Fixed issues

  • ahci-test fails on openSUSE Tumbleweed ppc64. (fixed in 2.3.0-rc1)
  • rcutorture test fails to build on openSUSE Tumbleweed ppc (gcc 4.8.3): undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_8' (will be fixed in 2.3.0-rc2)
  • The mac99 and pseries machines do not obey "-machine usb=no" currently (will be fixed in 2.3.0-rc2).
  • FW_CFG_ID is not defined on the arm/aarch64 virt board (will be fixed in 2.3.0-rc2)
  • The sdhci-pci device does not have a "drive" property, and does not support "-drive if=none" (will be fixed in 2.3.0-rc2).
  • query-command-line-options shows no options for -machine, breaks some libvirt features (will be fixed in 2.3.0-rc2)

Won't be fixed before release

  • SeaBIOS has a typo in the error message it spits when surpassing 128KB. (Fix: "[PATCH] checkrom: Fix typo in error message"; not worth a respin)
  • NVMe guest ABI changed from 2.2 to 2.3.

v2.3.0-rc1 status

Won't be fixed before release

  • SeaBIOS built from sources may fail tests dependent on SMBIOS _SM_ placement (SeaBIOS patch in openSUSE)

v2.3.0-rc2 status

Known issues

  • x86_64 bios-tables-test and qemu-system-x86_64 broken on openSUSE 13.1/Tumbleweed ppc (patch available)
  • seccomp fails to build on openSUSE Tumbleweed armv7l for lack of __NR_mmap and __NR_getrlimit

v2.3.0-rc3 status

Known issues