Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Planning for 0.13

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

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?

> 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.

> kvm irqchip
>    

Yup, that and guest SMP support.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori