From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: Release plan for 0.12.0 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:21:54 +0200 Message-ID: <20091014132154.GA29037@redhat.com> References: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> <200910081555.40897.jens@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4ACDF550.1020502@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jens Osterkamp , Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel , Paul Brook To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:64548 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752503AbZJNNYm (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:24:42 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4ACDF550.1020502@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 09:21:04AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Jens Osterkamp wrote: >> On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> >>> o VMState conversion -- I expect most of the pc target to be completed >>> o qdev conversion -- I hope that we'll get most of the pc target >>> completely converted to qdev >>> o storage live migration >>> o switch to SeaBIOS (need to finish porting features from Bochs) >>> o switch to gPXE (need to resolve slirp tftp server issue) >>> o KSM integration >>> o in-kernel APIC support for KVM >>> o guest SMP support for KVM >>> o updates to the default pc machine type >>> >>> Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere. >>> >> >> What about Or Gerlitz' raw backend driver ? I did not see it go in yet, >> or did I miss something ? >> > > The patch seems to have not been updated after the initial posting and > the first feedback cycle. Looks like Or has abandoned it. I have an updated version which works with new APIs, etc. Let me post it and we'll go from there. > I'm generally inclined to oppose the functionality as I don't think it > offers any advantages over the existing backends. I patch it in and use it all the time. It's much easier to setup on a random machine than a bridged config. -- MST