[Xen-devel] Question about upstream qemu and seabios on xen git

[Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx>]

I continue to do periodical test of xen-unstable with latest stable 
and/or unstable upstream qemu and seabios version.
Today for example I start to test qemu 1.5.1, no bugs found for now.

I think is better to maintain updated upstream qemu and seabios also on 
xen gits while xen is not "code freeze".
For xen develop/testing xen gits are mainly used, but on production the 
distributions will use latest stable qemu version (for example on debian 
experimental is releasing xen 4.3 and qemu is already 1.5.1 on debian 
unstable but xen 4.3 was freezed with qemu 1.3 and mainly tested with it).
Therefore should be best to have all components early updated as possible.

An example of a critical bug found testing latest qemu version (hvm 
domUs with qemu 1.4 was unable to boot with stdvga) found using more 
updated qemu that was already on debian repository but not on git used 
by xen:
http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=2e814a017155b885e4d4b5a88dc05e7367a9722a

Thanks for any reply

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