From patchwork Tue Jan 19 21:11:30 2010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Dustin Kirkland X-Patchwork-Id: 43227 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9DE49B7D02 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:12:16 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60553 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXLMx-0000Q2-AW for incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:12:11 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXLMQ-0000Pi-Hs for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:11:38 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXLMM-0000ON-EU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:11:38 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59525 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXLMM-0000OJ-BN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:11:34 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f219.google.com ([209.85.220.219]:40605) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NXLML-0004gD-BK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:11:33 -0500 Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so4086498fxm.17 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:11:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=k+OPKWUSNfeX4s8G83IP0vQhWMretHNi42y754qNywE=; b=DamWTqYeGo4YLTahgvjTTGEK4ApP/5D14Dj5SQyFUsJwfqqPre7v+7TkhAuNv7C6cP ZQjBPBoQVMRgUtP/Fh1nxBuTY+byiC4J1PVgtaRSIV+rxIgbLL3Q+auzMEwLtPqeJ6x/ lzYO+wG7oYQPTHFp6C6Fu9lCmdSd7u4p8U6PE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=VciiFmzdoXhc+OQnN7OzHhZnxP/dw3SvBCW51lvwu4KQ+cTI95Nrd5pgBAfo9B6XbM wEA51TCdRr9/bCIgzxHy8FcBc1uTrLw6G3BusvdXgj/ZNX6w6NYqxz/g7gaBssnO14bH 57vGwbCT22XxjaFJf/2IX+VYWSnX982l1QeA4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.5.65 with SMTP id 1mr1060999fau.77.1263935490437; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:11:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100119173121.GA11561@x200.localdomain> References: <20100119173121.GA11561@x200.localdomain> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:11:30 +1300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: e42783c39b3fdd64 Message-ID: From: Dustin Kirkland To: Chris Wright X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM developer call minutes (Jan 19) X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Chris Wright wrote: > how is stable branch working (both qemu and kvm)? > - qemu 0.12 cherry picking pretty aggressively >  - could use more community involvement >  - any distro patches for qemu/kvm packages? >    - doesn't sound like it I'm currently testing a merge of qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2 for Ubuntu. We're carrying the 3 patches attached here. All of these have been submitted upstream. One of them is critical to fix our static arm build. The other two are relatively minor fixes requested by our users. Cheers, :-Dustin qemu-img: improve error reporting Use strerror to provide a better error message when qemu-img fails. https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/418112 Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland diff -uprN qemu-kvm-0.11.0~rc2/qemu-img.c qemu-kvm-0.11.0~rc2.new/qemu-img.c --- qemu-kvm-0.11.0~rc2/qemu-img.c 2009-08-30 04:10:59.000000000 -0500 +++ qemu-kvm-0.11.0~rc2.new/qemu-img.c 2009-09-10 22:30:32.572211443 -0500 @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ static int img_create(int argc, char **a } else if (ret == -EFBIG) { error("The image size is too large for file format '%s'", fmt); } else { - error("Error while formatting"); + error("Error while formatting (%s)", strerror(-ret)); } } return 0;