From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.10.4 Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:16:38 +0200 Message-ID: <4A0A9E06.1070108@lfarkas.org> References: <4A09A472.6050801@redhat.com> <4A09DC50.7050307@lfarkas.org> <1242208138.18000.28.camel@blaa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Avi Kivity , KVM list To: Mark McLoughlin Return-path: Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.28]:32260 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754956AbZEMKQl (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 06:16:41 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 5so291857ywb.1 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 03:16:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1242208138.18000.28.camel@blaa> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 22:30 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >>> qemu-kvm-0.10.4 is now available. This is the first release of the 0.10 >>> stable branch of qemu-kvm. The qemu-kvm 0.10.4 includes all of the >>> features and fixes of qemu-0.10.4, plus adaptations for improved kvm >>> support. >>> >>> Note that qemu-kvm releases do not include the kvm external modules >>> (kvm*.ko); you can use the modules provided by your distribution, >>> modules from the development releases (kvm-xx), or from the kvm-kmod >>> stable branch releases once they become available. >>> >>> As this is the first release of this branch there is no changelog; >>> qemu-kvm-0.10.4 is roughly equivalent (but is not identical) to qemu >>> from kvm-84. >> this's the plan? ie. the stable userspace will be about kvm-84? >> what's the plan for kvm-kmod release date and it's also be somewhere ~ 84? > > AIUI it, the plan is: > > - There will be stable releases of qemu-kvm in sync with qemu > upstream releases - e.g. you can expect a qemu-kvm-0.11.0 release > shortly after qemu-0.11.0 is released > > - There will be no stable releases, as such, of the kernel module. > You should use upstream linux releases instead - e.g. the latest > stable release is 2.6.29.2 > > - The kvm-XX releases are development snapshots of the kvm.git and > qemu-kvm.git code > > For example, in Fedora, our plan is that we will ship the kvm.ko > included in upstream linux releases and the qemu-kvm stable releases[1]. > We may include qemu-kvm from kvm-XX releases during the development of > the next Fedora release, but only as a preview of the next qemu-kvm > stable release. and what's the plan for rhel-5.4? in this case latest stable kernel can't be used since 5.x series are always 2.6.18 based and if there is not a stable kvm-kmod branch then...? -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"