Re: Upstream Qemu Status (Was: Re: 4.2 TODO / Release Status)

[Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>]

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On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 10:54 -0400, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 May 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > Where are we with the following?
> > >
> > > I've not seen anything recently about PCI passthrough.
> >
> > The last patch series that was sent is:
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=133346733411606&w=2
> >
> > it is still stuck waiting for reviews. Given that QEMU is in freeze for
> > the next release release now, I don't think anything is going to happen
> > in the next few weeks.
> > I could backport the patch series to the upstream QEMU tree that we use
> > with xen-unstable, but considering that we are in freeze ourselves and
> > that upstream QEMU is not used by default with HVM guests we
> > might as well wait for the beginning of the next release cycle.
>
> Thanks. I will mark these as "deferred to 4.3" and remove from the list.
> If they do go into upstream we can revisit whether we backport.
>
> > > Is it still the case that save/restore is waiting on lib{c,l} patches
> > > and Remus is waiting for those? What's the hold up there?
> >
> > The libxl save/restore patches haven't been applied yet.
>
> Ian J -- have you dropped these or are you waiting for something?
>
>
>

Ian J, also note that the remus libxl patches may not apply cleanly after
applying stefano's patches (even these might require some re-basing),
given that a lot of patches that came in later (the event based stuff, Ian
C's refactorings,etc)
went in.
If you could just let me know when they have been committed, I can
certainly
rebase mine and post them.

thanks
shriram

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