[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat v7 Hardware Test Suite Guest Image Release Candidate Available

[Engineering Partner Management]

Greetings Red Hat Partners,

We are pleased to announce the availability of Release Candidate 
versions of the fully-virtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 guest 
images (v7x86_64-20120424, v7i386-20120425, v7data-20120426) for use 
with the Red Hat v7 Hardware Test Suite RC (v7-1.5-28). These images 
provide the fully-virtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 test 
environment used during the certification suite's fv_* tests and are 
intended for use with both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x under Xen and 
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x and 6.3 pre-releases under KVM.

The Release Candidate images are *not* an official release and should be 
*not* used for Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification submissions. The 
current fully-virtualized guest images (v7x86_64-20100310, 
v7i386-20100310, v7data-20100311) should continue to be used for 
official certifications.

The Release Candidate images are available at the following location:

ftp://partners.redhat.com/a166eabc5cf5df158922f9b06e5e7b21/hwcert/RHEL5/fv-images/

Highlights of the Release Candidate images include:

* The guest OS is rebased to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7, which is an 
upgrade from 5.3.

* The fv_* tests will continue to default to the official images.

* Local hosting is required for testing of the Release Candidate images. 
Instructions for local hosting of the images can be found on the 
Hardware Certification How-To Wiki:

https://fedorahosted.org/v7/wiki/HwCertHowToLocalGuestFiles

* The appropriate v7data image will also need to be locally hosted. The 
v7-data image corresponding to the Hardware Test Suite RC (v7-1.5-28) is 
"v7data-20120426.img.tar.bz2".

The Release Candidate images have been tested against Red Hat Enterprise 
Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on the x86 and x86_64 
architectures with the RC version (v7-1.5-28). If you encounter any 
problems, please file bugs against the 'Red Hat Hardware Certification 
Program' product in Red Hat Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com).

We value your ongoing participation in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
Hardware Certification efforts. Thank you for your continued 
partnership. If you have any questions or comments, please do not 
hesitate to contact your Partner Manager or Technical Account Manager.

Regards,

The Red Hat Hardware Certification Team