Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Ryan Harper (ryan.harper at ubuntu.com):
> * Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> [2014-03-13 16:09]:
> > Note: I did not include the developer list on this reply because I am not on
> > that list.
> > 
> > On 2014.02.15 Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > 
> > > It would be great if people could start testing the version in this ppa
> > where
> > > possible, as early as possible.
> > 
> > After Ubuntu desktop 14.04 actually started working, things have been great
> > until today.
> > 
> > Now, I can not get my VNC client to communicate with my Ubuntu Desktop VM.
> > Everything is fine and I can see it start up and such but then I always get:
> > 
> > "Error in TightVNC Viewer: Error in protocol: Incorrect size of rectangle"
> 
> I've had trouble with the tightvnc viewer before;  I almost always use
> virt-viewer or gvncviewer.

That may be, but there were a set of vnc updates to the qemu tree
between the last and current version in ppa:

fe6c53b4bbd2e83f82087bc5e37daa11ffc65879 Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kraxel/tags/pull-vnc-1' into staging
e22492d332c5c80ea8cb1755c29ca9b6240c7716 ui/vnc: disable adaptive update calculations if not needed
919372251cbfa9e43b0264fec475dd1eca23784f ui/vnc: optimize setting in vnc_dpy_update()
863d7c91050551def59116f4f3b39fab7f1568f7 ui/vnc: optimize clearing in find_and_clear_dirty_height()
12b316d4c173bf07f421ef9dc98ba4b53916066e ui/vnc: optimize dirty bitmap tracking
6cd859aa8a7fb60fe6edb89e628cddfe25dfe186 ui/vnc: derive cmp_bytes from VNC_DIRTY_PIXELS_PER_BIT
b4c85ddcec24c60616aad9b3b7fc36ce19ba3ca4 ui/vnc: introduce VNC_DIRTY_PIXELS_PER_BIT macro
38ee14f4f33f8836fc0e209ca59c6ae8c6edf380 vnc: fix use-after-free in vnc_update_client_sync
e3c1adf16e38714ebd761dd02517dd07760ba6d2 vnc: Fix qemu crashed when vnc client disconnect suddenly
2e7bcdb99adbd8fc10ad9ddcf93bd2bf3c0f1f2d vnc: Fix tight_detect_smooth_image() for lossless case
14768eba46e4ecf60fd267452baf8925afd9ed09 input: mouse: switch vnc ui to new core
8d447d10b74e5116ed85ce2b890301b77774ec49 input: keyboard: switch vnc ui to new core

So my money is on a bug in there.