From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSTUt-0003XO-B5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:52:15 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSTUn-0003Ui-9l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:52:13 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51260 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSTUm-0003UX-UI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:52:09 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:29500) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSTUm-0002Y7-Dd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:52:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:49:04 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Planning for 0.13 Message-ID: <20100106104903.GA2248@redhat.com> References: <4B4333DF.8090303@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100105213350.GC30921@redhat.com> <4B43DA17.8080001@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B43DA17.8080001@codemonkey.ws> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:32:23PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 01/05/2010 03:33 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:43:11AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I hope everyone had a happy new year! Now that we've finished the 0.12 >>> release and most of us have had a nice break, I think it's time to start >>> planning for the next release. >>> >>> 0.12 felt a bit rushed to me. I'd like to take a bit more time with >>> 0.13 and try to complete features a bit more than we did in 0.12. So I >>> propose that we target 0.13 as a 6-month cycle and target a June 1st >>> release. Based on the -rc process for 0.12, I would like to have a two >>> week -rc cycle for 0.13 but this time, absolutely no non-bug fixes past >>> freeze. We got sloppy in 0.12 with this and we had some ugly >>> regressions in the final release. >>> >>> Here are the features that I'm aware of for 0.13. Please add anything >>> you're working on and I'll try to centralize this somewhere. >>> >>> - gPXE support for virtio-blk >>> - Helper based network setup >>> - Balloon driver statistics >>> - Fully supported QMP >>> - Live migration protocol support for subvendor versions (aka features) >>> >> pci compliance (virtio passing whql) >> > > What's the remaining problem? IIRC, proper memory/IO access filtering (get rid of map functions) and PCI Express. >> vepa networking >> > > To me, this is covered with helpers. I really want to get qemu out of > the network setup business specifically because of things like vepa, > vmtag, and all of the other weird things that can be done. I don't think you can now make vepa work this way. For existing kernels, they only way I see is using packet sockets, and that code already mostly works. One day, when macvtap is ready - who knows. But waiting for that would mean we won't have it in 0.13. >> kvm irqchip >> > > Yup, that and guest SMP support. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori