[ACTIVITY] report week ending 2 Nov

Progress: * VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership] - code review - target-arm pull requests - lots of pull request processing (softfreeze was this week) - investigated and sent patches to fix a bug where a PC related pullrequest was failing tests on my merge test setup (turned out to be a build system issue where we were doing things in configure that meant make didn't notice it needed to rerun it) - some simple patches for coverity issues

thanks -- PMM