Re: [Xen-users] Xen 4.1 Feature Request List

[Grant McWilliams <grantmasterflash@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Stephen Spector <stephen.spector@citrix.com
> wrote:

>  Xen Community:
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> As many of you are aware, the Xen 4.0 hypervisor is due to ship tomorrow
> (shhhh, don’t tell anyone) and I wanted to get submissions underway for Xen
> 4.1 features. I have updated the Roadmap Wiki page (
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenRoadMap) with a new section for Xen
> 4.1 features to be added. Feel free to add your ideas or send me your
> features and I will update the wiki. I also plan to update the Xen.org
> roadmap page at http://www.xen.org/products/xen_roadmap.html to be a list
> of 4.1 features tomorrow, after Xen 4.0 is announced.
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> Thanks.
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> *Stephen Spector*
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These might not be wishes for 4.1 as some may be too big but they're my
wishlist anyway. Note they also might not be things that belong to the
Hypervisor but rather to tools associated with.


   1. Make qcow2 actually work and include backing files.
      1. If it can't be made to work then it should be taken out and not
      mentioned in the docs so we don't waste weeks trying to get it to work.
      2. Figure out why you can't start a VM with a disk image residing in a
   ramdisk (bug?)
   3. Nesting
      1. As silly as this feature sounds it may be why I leave Xen for KVM.
      This would be useful for teaching management of VMs. A student
could have a
      Dom0 and start up DomUs inside it without each on needing their
own physical
      machine.
      4. Install PV DomU from CD without FTP/NFS tricks.
   1. I don't care how it's done but it would be nice. The "install from
      network" shuffle can pose a complexity for people getting started in Xen.
      I'm aware that HVM does this because of it's use of Qemu but it would be
      nice everywhere. Maybe as Xen moves to Hybrid VMs instead of PV/HVM this
      will no longer be an issue.


I'm sure I'll think of others but that's off the top of my head. Like I said
maybe some of it would be Xen 5 stuff, I don't know.

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