Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

[Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 06:43 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope everyone had a happy new year!  Now that we've finished the 0.12 
> release and most of us have had a nice break, I think it's time to start 
> planning for the next release.
> 
> 0.12 felt a bit rushed to me.  I'd like to take a bit more time with 
> 0.13 and try to complete features a bit more than we did in 0.12.  So I 
> propose that we target 0.13 as a 6-month cycle and target a June 1st 
> release.  Based on the -rc process for 0.12, I would like to have a two 
> week -rc cycle for 0.13 but this time, absolutely no non-bug fixes past 
> freeze.  We got sloppy in 0.12 with this and we had some ugly 
> regressions in the final release.
> 
> Here are the features that I'm aware of for 0.13.  Please add anything 
> you're working on and I'll try to centralize this somewhere.

Port the -mem-path and -mem-prealloc options from qemu-kvm.
virtio-balloon enhancements for -mem-path enabled VMs.

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Thanks,
Adam