Re: can we hope a stable version in the near future?

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Farkas Levente wrote:
>> There is the maint/ series on git.kernel.org.  It doesn't have formal
>> releases though.
>>     
>
> do you plan any formal release? and it'd be nice to see the relationship
> between the current devel tree and the stable tree to eg. last stable
> 0.5 current devel 0.78.
>   

The key to a formal release is a formal test suite.  We've been building 
one (for a long while) but it isn't in production yet.

The plan is for it to be open so people can add their favorite guests, 
to ensure they will not regress.

> on the other hand the real question are you plan to somehow stabilize
> any of the following release in the near future? in the last 1.5 years
> we wait for this. or you currently not recommend and not plan to use kvm
> in production? it's also an option but would be useful to know. in this
> case we (and probably many others) switch to xen, virtualbox, vmware or
> anything else as a virtualization platform.
>   

kvm is used in production on several products.  Just not the kvm-nn 
releases I make.  The production versions of kvm are backed by testing, 
which makes all the difference.  Slapping a 'stable' label over a 
release doesn't make it so.


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