Call-for-Testing: KVM-84 Backport

[Dustin Kirkland]

Howdy,

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was the first of the major server distributions to
ship KVM as the preferred hypervisor for virtual machine hosting.
KVM's upstream development has proceeded at a vigorous pace--faster
than Ubuntu's other server cornerstones (LAMP, Samba, Bind, Postfix,
etc).

The major version of the KVM userspace shipped in 8.04.2 LTS (kvm-62),
and the kvm kernel module in linux-2.6.24 are affected by several key
architectural issues that cannot be solved through cherry-picked
patches.

On March 17, 2009, I posted the following call for testing:
 * http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/03/ubuntu-server-kvm-call-for-testing.html

We have worked through a number of the issues raised after that blog
post, and cherry-picked several patches that fix some known bugs.  We
believe that Ubuntu 9.04's kvm-84 is a far more complete hypervisor.

This is a call for one more round of testing of a release-candidate
build of that package (kvm - 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu12.1~rc1) in the
ubuntu-virt ppa:
 * https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-virt/+archive/ppa

If you are able to assist us with the testing, please add that PPA,
and install both the userspace and dkms built kernel module onto your
8.04 and/or 8.10 servers.
 $ sudo apt-get install kvm kvm-source

Please file any bugs against kvm in Launchpad, and please tag them
with "kvm-84".
 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kvm

The goal is to upload a version of kvm-84 to the hardy-backports and
intrepid-backports repositories around July 6, 2009.
 * https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

Thank you,
-- 
:-Dustin