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[Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0
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Amit Shah |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0 |
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Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:47:03 +0530 |
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Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) |
On (Tue) Sep 29 2009 [18:54:53], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0.
>
> I'd like to do a few things different this time around. I don't think
> the -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more testing out
> of it. I'd like to shorten the timeline for 0.12.0 a good bit. The
> 0.10 stable tree got pretty difficult to maintain toward the end of the
> cycle. We also had a pretty huge amount of change between 0.10 and 0.11
> so I think a shorter cycle is warranted.
>
> I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3 month
> cycle and would align well with some of the Linux distribution cycles.
> I'd like to limit things to a single -rc that lasted only for about a
> week. This is enough time to fix most of the obvious issues I think.
>
> I'd also like to try to enumerate some features for this release.
> Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release
> (target-i386 centric). Please add or comment on items that you'd either
> like to see in the release or are planning on working on.
>
> o VMState conversion -- I expect most of the pc target to be completed
> o qdev conversion -- I hope that we'll get most of the pc target
> completely converted to qdev
> o storage live migration
> o switch to SeaBIOS (need to finish porting features from Bochs)
> o switch to gPXE (need to resolve slirp tftp server issue)
> o KSM integration
> o in-kernel APIC support for KVM
> o guest SMP support for KVM
> o updates to the default pc machine type
o multiport virtio-console support
> Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere.
Thanks,
Amit
Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0, Avi Kivity, 2009/09/30
Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0, Michael Tokarev, 2009/09/30
Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger, 2009/09/30