Re: Stable branch releases?

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Glauber Costa wrote:
>>
>> As we're getting close to kvm-xxx anyway, maybe we could forget this 
>> number
>> scheme, and adopt something that tracks linux. This way, you know 
>> exactly what
>> kernel a released is based on. Something in the lines of kvm-29.1  
>> for updates
>> to the .29 series, (of course _this_ scheme is bad, because it brings 
>> clashes)
>>   
>
> It also ignores qemu, which is larger contributor to user visible 
> features...
>
> Maybe stable releases should have separate packages for kvm and qemu: 
> kvm-modules-2.6.29.1 and qemu-kvm-0.9.1.17.  Users would pick the 
> latest of each, and would only need to upgrade a component that's 
> changed.

Yes, this would be IMHO the best overall solution.  Can we take 
kvm-userspace maint/2.6.29 and call it qemu-kvm-0.9.1-1?  Most users 
don't need newer kernel modules if they have a relatively recent distro.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori