Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-14 release

Avi Kivity
2007-02-19T15:42:53Z

James Morris wrote:
> It's traditional for the mainline kernel to maintain backward
> compatibility with existing userspace ABIs (e.g. syscalls).
>
> The idea of a userspace application breaking because of a mainline kernel
> upgrade is not acceptable to users and also pretty much unsupportable by
> distros.
>

That is of course very true, and it is a goal of kvm to have a stable
userspace interface. I plan to target 2.6.21 as the stable ABI release.

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