RE: [Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

RE: [Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

[Laurent Vivier]

>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

Do you think the work I did in december 2008 will be usefull for this ?

link: http://markmail.org/thread/qxqvcrzqitpzrsnb

>  - Helper based network setup
>  - Balloon driver statistics
>  - Fully supported QMP
>  - Live migration protocol support for subvendor versions (aka features)
>

Regards,
Laurent


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Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Laurent Vivier <Laurent@vivier.eu> wrote:
>>  - gPXE support for virtio-blk
>
> Do you think the work I did in december 2008 will be usefull for this ?
>
> link: http://markmail.org/thread/qxqvcrzqitpzrsnb

I don't know how I missed your patches.  They look very interesting :).

I recently (re)implemented the virtio-blk.c part and attached it to
gPXE's sanboot command:
http://www.mail-archive.com/gpxe@etherboot.org/msg00159.html

I'm going to check out your patches and see what we can merge into gPXE.

Stefan

[Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

[Anthony Liguori]

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)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

[Stefan Weil]

Anthony Liguori schrieb:
> 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)
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori

I hope you enjoyed your break and had a happy new year, too.

Here are some features I had been working on which
could be integrated in 0.13:

- eepro100 fixes (high priority because needed by many users)
- tcg interpreter (medium priority because it extends the range
  of supported hosts)
- installer for windows (I'm afraid that windows priority is low
  because nobody loves it very much)

The code for these features is available here:
http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/ar7.git.

Regards,

Stefan Weil

Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

[Aurelien Jarno]

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)

   - TCG IA64 support. I have something mostly working in system mode, 
     so it should not be a problem for June.

-- 
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aurelien@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net

Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

[Roy Tam]

2010/1/5 Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
> 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)

for me,
- NEC PC-9821 support
hope Mr. Takeda can improve his patch set and push it to git head
before 0.13 release.

>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
>
>

Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 01/05/10 13:43, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> - gPXE support for virtio-blk

likewise for lsi, not sure how hard this is though.
maybe figuring something sane way to extboot is easier.

> - Helper based network setup
> - Balloon driver statistics
> - Fully supported QMP
> - Live migration protocol support for subvendor versions (aka features)

- qdev conversion continued.
- scsi needs some more love, megasas driver.
- p35 + pcie.

cheers,
   Gerd

Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

[Adam Litke]

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 06:43 -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.

Port the -mem-path and -mem-prealloc options from qemu-kvm.
virtio-balloon enhancements for -mem-path enabled VMs.

-- 
Thanks,
Adam

Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

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)
> 

Hello,

I think Xen folks were planning to push (some) Xen qemu-dm patches for upstream
Qemu 0.13.

Discussion here:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-01/msg00200.html

-- Pasi

Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

[Stefano Stabellini]

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On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen 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)
> > 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I think Xen folks were planning to push (some) Xen qemu-dm patches for upstream
> Qemu 0.13.
> 
> Discussion here:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-01/msg00200.html
> 

Yes, we are going to try to upstream Xen support in Qemu, hopefully
we'll finish in time for 0.13, but we just started the work so I don't
know yet for sure.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

[Artyom Tarasenko]

Hi Anthony,

> 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)

- Support for Solaris/sparc guest
Shouldn't be too hard. After my recent irq and mmu fixes Solaris
2.4-2.6 is already booting under the git/master. There are only few
issues with spurious interrupts (Slavio/Macio), going to track them
down.

Once it works under OBP, the missing functionality can be added to
OpenBIOS. There is already a good test case: NetBSD 1.3.3 fails under
OpenBIOS the same way as Solars does. But OpenBIOS release plan is
independent from qemu release plan anyway, right?

-- 
Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/