Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Feb 22

[Alon Levy]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 06:06:22PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Looks like Chris will send minutes too,
> so I didn't do much to polish this,
> I didn't realise he's doing it until I had this, so
> here's the braindump: hope it helps.
> 
> 1. 0.14 postmortem
> - what went well
>       wiki for planning
>       testing
> - what can be improved
>       rc - cycle could be longer
> 
> 2. 0.15 should be end of June
>    July 1?
>    - features:
>      QED
>      other?
>      virtagent? might be blocked by the rpc issue (discussion followed)
> 
> 3. virtagent rpc
>      what should virtagent use to talk to the world outside of QEMU?
>      Generalize QMP?
>      Use an external rpc library?
>      Do we want to/can we have virtagent out of process?
>      Hard to make well with live migration.

Spice had (when migration was bidirectional) an external agent (spice client)
that worked fine with live migration. I agree an external agent makes live
migration more difficult, but I disagree it is a blocker. It did require 
bidirectional
data exchange with qemu, but how is that a problem? why do all migrations have 
to
be identical to to-file migrations?

>      Would be the most beneficial if we can make it stateless.
>      Might be good for security but hard to integrate.
> 
> 4. qcow3
>      there will be a wiki with features we want there
> 
> 5. google summer of code
>       we only have 3 projects
>       need more projects/mentors, we have another week
> 
> 6. switch from gpxe to ipxe
>       needed to get patches applied
>       we'll likely switch
>       need some testing
>       might be possible by 0.15
> 
> -- 
> MST
>