From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJ8jX-0003H6-TE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:52:48 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJ8jT-0003E6-7d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:52:47 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43629 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NJ8jT-0003Dy-2D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:52:43 -0500 Received: from sous-sol.org ([216.99.217.87]:39503 helo=sequoia.sous-sol.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NJ8jS-00046J-GP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:52:42 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:52:26 -0800 From: Chris Wright Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice project is now open Message-ID: <20091211165226.GA2909@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <1393046876.1549021260539141025.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> <4B2274A6.8050304@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B2274A6.8050304@codemonkey.ws> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Yaniv Kamay , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf , Jun Koi * Anthony Liguori (anthony@codemonkey.ws) wrote: > Jun Koi wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >>> On 11.12.2009, at 14:45, Yaniv Kamay wrote: >>>> due to a server relocation the site will be down during this weekend. >>>> >>>> Spice ship patched QEMU based on fairly old KVM snapshot as a reference >>>> implementation. The Spice team plane to push all the relevant bits into >>>> QEMU upstream. >>>> >>> What's the roadmap here? It'd be a shame to have yet another fork of qemu. >>> >> >> Knowing that this is a Redhat project, I am sure that will not happen. >> > > It already has. It's not a git tree with staged patches. It's a > tarball release of a really old version of kvm-userspace that's called > 'vdesktop'. The lack of proper git tree and patches is a very unfortunate way to get things started, I agree. > That's a fork like it or not. It is a branch of work. The branch has been done without community interaction, so yes, it looks like a fork. The whole purpose of getting spice licensed and released as an open source project is to work towards eliminating the branch. I'll repeat what Yaniv said already: Spice ship patched QEMU based on fairly old KVM snapshot as a reference implementation. The Spice team plane to push all the relevant bits into QEMU upstream. I believe they wanted to get things out as soon as possible. thanks, -chris