Re: [Qemu-devel] Cutting a new QEMU release

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:48:22PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> What do people think?  TCG seems to be in a good place.  We've got 
> virtio, KVM, live migration, tons of new devices, bsd-user, etc.

I'd like to see a new release if at all practical. For Fedora there is a
push to ship KVM and QEMU packages based off the same source tree to make
patching security flaws more pratical. Given that KVM ships off a QEMU
SVN snapshot, having a single source tree would mean shipping our full
multi-arch QEMU package off a SVN snapshot too. I don't find this a
particularly appealing thing - if CVS snapshot is stable enough for it
to be exposed to Fedora users, I'd like to think QEMU developers would
be happy with a official release. If the QEMU dev community considers 
the code too unstable to release, then exposing it to Fedora users seem 
sub-optimal. 

Personally I test & use the i386 and x86_64 system emulator parts of
QEMU, and those seem generally stable enough to base a new release off.
So I'd welcome a new release from that POV. I'll leave others to
comment on quality of the other arch targets. 

> We could decide to cut one by the end of the month.  I'm already doing 
> some test work in QEMU so I can follow up with some more detailed notes 
> about what is working and what isn't working.  That gives us some time 
> to decide if there's anything we need to fix before a release.

A QEMU release by the end of the month would work pretty well for the 
time scale we're working on to get stuff into the Fedora 11 release 
too. 

Regards,
Daniel
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