Re: [Hackathon Minutes] Xen 4.4 Planning

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 14/06/13 11:45, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 14.06.13 at 11:59, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I also wanted to add to the point that Alex has made on serious bugs in xen
>> vs. kvm : this gets raised regularly by Xen users when I attend
>> conferences. And I also heard a few times now that we appear to focus more
>> on sexy features rather than the basics. This is relatively new though: the
>> first time I noticed was towards the end of last year. Which does not mean
>> that this is new: it may just mean that top issues/concerns that were
>> frequently raised before (mainly trust in the future of the project) have
>> disappeared.
> I'd really like to see examples of this - there ought to be quite a
> few according to what you write, yet I don't seem to recall any
> that got plainly ignored. Of course there are always bugs which
> take longer than others to figure out and fix.

Well one example was that from the beginning of time until the 4.3 
release, you could only specify a single USB device in the config file 
for an HVM domain.

Another one is the qemu one we're discussing right now -- it was 
reported back in February I think, but it's only recently actually 
getting the attention that it needs to be sorted out.  The root cause 
was known by March, at which point there would have been plenty of time 
for a "proper fix".

And there's random things like cd-eject or cd-insert not working in 
certain circumstances (namely, when blktap was available).  It's 
something basic, but something we don't really use very much, and never 
got flagged up.  So it was broken in the 4.2 release.

I don't really know if this is the kind of thing that users are talking 
about, but if I used a release of a (supposedly) mature product, and 
something as basic as "insert a CD" crashed, I wouldn't be very impressed.

  -George