Re: Xen 4.7 Headline Features (for PR)

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 03:22:51PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
> 
> > On 22 Apr 2016, at 15:08, George Dunlap <dunlapg@umich.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Folks,
> >> 
> >> given that we have we are getting close to RC's, I would like to start to spec out the headline Features for the press release. The big items I am aware of are COLO. I am a little confused about xSplice.
> >> 
> >> Maybe we can use this thread to start collating a short-list.
> > 
> > hotplug disk backends (drbd, iscsi, &c) for HVM guests.
> > 
> > hard affinity for credit2
> > 
> > soft reset for pv guests
> > 
> > kconfig for the hypervisor
> 
> This is one which potentially has a big security impact and could be a Headline Feature. Just to remind me, is KCONFIG a run-time or build-time config mechanism. If the latter, distro users will not benefit from it.
> 

Build time. It's more useful to people who would like to trim down Xen.
It would be useful for embedded use cases I think. Distros will probably
go with default configuration.

Wei.

> Lars
> 

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