From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:05:16 -0500 Message-ID: <4AC3578C.8070105@us.ibm.com> References: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> <4AC2FD93.80208@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Paul Brook , kvm-devel To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:60258 "EHLO e7.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751654AbZI3NFT (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:05:19 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e7.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n8UD2uE0030824 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:02:56 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id n8UD5MPe164616 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:05:22 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n8UD5LhH014998 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:05:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4AC2FD93.80208@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Avi Kivity wrote: > On 09/30/2009 01:54 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0. >> >> I'd like to do a few things different this time around. I don't >> think the -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more >> testing out of it. I'd like to shorten the timeline for 0.12.0 a >> good bit. The 0.10 stable tree got pretty difficult to maintain >> toward the end of the cycle. We also had a pretty huge amount of >> change between 0.10 and 0.11 so I think a shorter cycle is warranted. >> >> I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3 >> month cycle and would align well with some of the Linux distribution >> cycles. I'd like to limit things to a single -rc that lasted only >> for about a week. This is enough time to fix most of the obvious >> issues I think. >> >> I'd also like to try to enumerate some features for this release. >> Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release >> (target-i386 centric). Please add or comment on items that you'd >> either like to see in the release or are planning on working on. >> >> 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 > > Machine monitor protocol. If we're going to support the protocol for 0.12, I'd like to most of the code merged by the end of October. -- Regards, Anthony Liguori