Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 3.0 ?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 23/11/2017 11:57, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 23.11.2017 11:17, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 23 November 2017 at 10:03, Cornelia Huck <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:14:28 +0100
>>> Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> By the way, before everybody now introduces "2.12" machine types ... is
>>>> there already a consensus that the next version will be "2.12" ?
>>>>
>>>> A couple of months ago, we discussed that we could maybe do a 3.0 after
>>>> 2.11, e.g. here:
>>>>
>>>>  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg05056.html
>>>>
>>>> I'd still like to see that happen... Peter, any thoughts on this?
>>>
>>> So, as I just thought about preparing the new machine for s390x as
>>> well: Did we reach any consensus about what the next qemu version will
>>> be called?
>>
>> I haven't seen any sufficiently solid plan to make me want to
>> pick anything except "2.12".
> 
> I still don't think that we need a big plan for this... The change from
> 1.7 to 2.0 was also rather arbitrary, wasn't it?
> 
> Anyway, I've now started a Wiki page to collect ideas:
> 
>  https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Version3.0
> 
> Maybe we can jump to version 3.0 if there are enough doable items on the
> list that we can all agree upon.
> 
> I've put "--accel kvm:hax:tcg" also on the doable list since I don't
> remember any objections to that idea so far -- feel free to move it to
> the controversial list instead if you think it needs more discussion.

"hax" is very far from feature parity with TCG, it doesn't even support
CPUID (-cpu).  "-accel kvm:hvf:tcg" could be a possibility, but only if
we have resources to test it.  As far as I know the only active x86
developer who owns a Mac is Igor?

Paolo