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

[Farkas Levente <lfarkas@lfarkas.org>]

Dor Laor wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>     
>>
>> there are many open source project which has stable and devel
>> versions:-) actually almost all projects have a stable release along
>> with the devel version. but kvm has not any in the last few years,
>> that's why i think it's high time to stabilize 'a' version ie. frozen
>> feature list and fix all known bugs.
>>   
> You're right about the need for stable release, that's the idea of the
> 'maint' branches.
> maint/2.6.26 for both kernel and userspace is stable (using userspace
> irqchip).
> Now we'll stabilize another user/kernel pair based on 2.6.28

that's a good news:-)
but does this means there will be a new kvm-x.y.z release and i can
build the userspace from it _and_ build a kmod for eg. the latest
rhel-5's kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5? ie. i'll be able to install it on
rhel-5 a kvm and kvm-kmod and it'll work? or it'll just run on the not
even released 2.6.28 kernel?
and what is the relationship between maint release and kvm-nn and the
next stable release?
is there a tarball for the current maint release? and the same question
here can i build a kmod and userspace from that for rhel-5?

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"