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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:21:04 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0
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To: Jens Osterkamp <jens@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>

Jens Osterkamp wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>   
>>  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
>>
>> Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere.
>>     
>
> What about Or Gerlitz' raw backend driver ? I did not see it go in yet, or did 
> I miss something ?
>   

The patch seems to have not been updated after the initial posting and 
the first feedback cycle.

I'm generally inclined to oppose the functionality as I don't think it 
offers any advantages over the existing backends.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori