[Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0

[Amit Shah]

On (Tue) Sep 29 2009 [18:54:53], 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

  o multiport virtio-console support

> Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere.

Thanks,
                Amit