Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:41:23 +0200
Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 09/30/2009 01:54 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0.
> >
> > I'd like to do a few things different this time around.  I don't think 
> > the -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more testing 
> > out of it.  I'd like to shorten the timeline for 0.12.0 a good bit.  
> > The 0.10 stable tree got pretty difficult to maintain toward the end 
> > of the cycle.  We also had a pretty huge amount of change between 0.10 
> > and 0.11 so I think a shorter cycle is warranted.
> >
> > I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3 
> > month cycle and would align well with some of the Linux distribution 
> > cycles.  I'd like to limit things to a single -rc that lasted only for 
> > about a week.  This is enough time to fix most of the obvious issues I 
> > think.
> >
> > I'd also like to try to enumerate some features for this release.  
> > Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release 
> > (target-i386 centric).  Please add or comment on items that you'd 
> > either like to see in the release or are planning on working on.
> >
> > o VMState conversion -- I expect most of the pc target to be completed
> > o qdev conversion -- I hope that we'll get most of the pc target 
> > completely converted to qdev
> > o storage live migration
> > o switch to SeaBIOS (need to finish porting features from Bochs)
> > o switch to gPXE (need to resolve slirp tftp server issue)
> > o KSM integration
> > o in-kernel APIC support for KVM
> > o guest SMP support for KVM
> > o updates to the default pc machine type
> 
> Machine monitor protocol.

 Yeah, I was going to suggest it as well.