From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Split kvm source tarballs Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:19:57 -0500 Message-ID: <49CBC74D.70306@codemonkey.ws> References: <49C64963.20601@redhat.com> <49CA2F16.1070905@codemonkey.ws> <49CA3058.3040600@redhat.com> <49CAA367.9050404@codemonkey.ws> <49CB5448.9060203@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: KVM list To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.244]:51981 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752222AbZCZSUK (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:20:10 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d14so507839and.1 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:20:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49CB5448.9060203@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Avi Kivity wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Hi Avi, >> >> I spent some time today putting together an approximation of the KVM >> stable release based on QEMU 0.10.x. In principle, it's not too bad >> at all because it's just a matter of creating a branch in >> kvm-userspace that's based a kvm commit sometime after the QEMU >> 0.10.x release but before the next qemu-cvs merge you did that >> happened post QEMU 0.10.x. Basically, it was a merge of 72ee81f and >> ddecccc. >> >> The problem for me is pulling in the QEMU stable fixes. You don't >> have a branch that tracks the QEMU stable tree and I can pull in the >> QEMU stable git tree without rewriting history since the directory >> layout is different. >> >> But if you created a qemu-svn-stable branch that followed the QEMU >> stable tree in kvm-userspace, like the qemu-cvs branch follows trunk, >> then it would be pretty easy to create and maintain a kvm_stable_0_10 >> branch of whatever you'd like to call it in kvm-userspace. >> >> Any chance you could do this? I suspect it's just a matter of >> creating the branch based off of the qemu-cvs tree at ddecccc and >> then doing a git-svn fetch. >> > > I pushed this under the old naming convention, as kvm-userspace.git > maint/2.6.30. I'll rename it once I convert the repo. > > Sweet, thanks! Regards, Anthony Liguori