From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: can we hope a stable version in the near future? Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:14:43 +0200 Message-ID: <492046F3.900@redhat.com> References: <4917525D.709@lfarkas.org> <49180D1D.9000409@redhat.com> <491811B4.6040700@lfarkas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: KVM , Uri Lublin To: Farkas Levente Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:34794 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753418AbYKPQOv (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:14:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <491811B4.6040700@lfarkas.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function