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Bug 1471291 - Rebase qemu-ga-win for RHEL-7.5 (Windows guests)
Summary: Rebase qemu-ga-win for RHEL-7.5 (Windows guests)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: virtio-win
Version: 7.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Sameeh Jubran
QA Contact: lijin
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Blocks: 1469590 1562118
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-07-14 22:10 UTC by Jeff Nelson
Modified: 2018-04-10 06:33 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: mingw-qemu-ga-win-7.5.0-2.el7ev
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: 1562118 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2018-04-10 06:31:38 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2018:0657 0 None None None 2018-04-10 06:32:59 UTC

Description Jeff Nelson 2017-07-14 22:10:28 UTC 
This is the BZ to track the rebase of qemu-ga-win, the guest agents for Windows guests on RHEL.
Comment 3 Sameeh Jubran 2017-09-07 14:35:43 UTC 
I have been working lately on dropping the current downstream repository -qemu-ga-win - we have for building qemu-ga for Windows and replacing it with the new mingw-qemu-ga-win repository. The new repository is based on qemu-2.9.0 and is built using mingw as it is the case in upstream. The qemu-ga-win is configured to be built using Visual Studio instead, this makes it much harder to keep in track of upstream changes and patches.

This migration process is essential for us to keep our upstream first policy and makes it easier for us to keep up with upstream qemu ga changes.

The new mingw-qemu-ga-win repository is ready and soon we'll drop the old qemu-ga-win repository in favour of the mingw-qemu-ga-win. I'll update this BZ when this happens.
Comment 4 Ademar Reis 2017-10-05 18:56:52 UTC 
(In reply to Sameeh Jubran from comment #3)
> I have been working lately on dropping the current downstream repository
> -qemu-ga-win - we have for building qemu-ga for Windows and replacing it
> with the new mingw-qemu-ga-win repository. The new repository is based on
> qemu-2.9.0 and is built using mingw as it is the case in upstream. The
> qemu-ga-win is configured to be built using Visual Studio instead, this
> makes it much harder to keep in track of upstream changes and patches.
> 
> This migration process is essential for us to keep our upstream first policy
> and makes it easier for us to keep up with upstream qemu ga changes.
> 
> The new mingw-qemu-ga-win repository is ready and soon we'll drop the old
> qemu-ga-win repository in favour of the mingw-qemu-ga-win. I'll update this
> BZ when this happens.

Sameeh, do you have any updates yet?
Comment 5 xiagao 2017-10-12 08:08:48 UTC 
Hi developers,

Which qemu-ga-win commands will be supported in this new rebased version? Or any update compared with last released version?

QE want to make test plan for rhel.7.5 project recently.Could you give some advice?

Thanks,
xiaoling
Comment 6 xiagao 2017-10-12 09:14:16 UTC 
(In reply to xiagao from comment #5)
> Hi developers,
> 
> Which qemu-ga-win commands will be supported in this new rebased version? Or
> any update compared with last released version?
> 
> QE want to make test plan for rhel.7.5 project recently.Could you give some
> advice?
> 
> Thanks,
> xiaoling
Comment 9 Sameeh Jubran 2017-10-17 15:27:27 UTC 
(In reply to xiagao from comment #6)
> (In reply to xiagao from comment #5)
> > Hi developers,
> > 
> > Which qemu-ga-win commands will be supported in this new rebased version? Or
> > any update compared with last released version?
As you can see in the commit history for the 2.9.0 branch no new commands were merged so I think it should remain as it is.
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commits/stable-2.9/qga
> > 
> > QE want to make test plan for rhel.7.5 project recently.Could you give some
> > advice?

Sure

The Black Box testing for qemu-ga can be automated easily as the commands are provided in JSON format. You can write different test scenarios that test the 
behaviour of the commands, I'd advise you to take a look at this page as it explains in great detail some key features in the qemu-ga:
https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/GuestAgent

In case this answer is not sufficient please do write me for further inquiries that you have.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > xiaoling
Comment 12 Sameeh Jubran 2017-12-04 07:59:36 UTC 
Hi, can you confirm this please?
Comment 13 Sameeh Jubran 2017-12-04 08:01:35 UTC 
(In reply to Sameeh Jubran from comment #12)
> Hi, can you confirm this please?

Please ignore this, wrong BZ =)
Comment 15 Sameeh Jubran 2017-12-13 10:02:53 UTC 
Build 2.9.5 of mingw-qemu-ga-win is now available on brew with the missing change-log included:
https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/buildinfo?buildID=632383
Comment 17 lijin 2018-01-18 02:12:28 UTC 
Change status to verified as no regression issue found
Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 06:31:38 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0657
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