Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice project is now open

[Chris Wright]

* Anthony Liguori (address@hidden) wrote:
> Jun Koi wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>>   
>>> On 11.12.2009, at 14:45, Yaniv Kamay wrote:
>>>> due to a server relocation the site will be down during this weekend.
>>>>
>>>> Spice ship patched QEMU based on fairly old KVM snapshot as a reference
>>>> implementation. The Spice team plane to push all the relevant bits into
>>>> QEMU upstream.
>>>>       
>>> What's the roadmap here? It'd be a shame to have yet another fork of qemu.
>>>     
>>
>> Knowing that this is a Redhat project, I am sure that will not happen.
>>   
>
> It already has.  It's not a git tree with staged patches.  It's a  
> tarball release of a really old version of kvm-userspace that's called  
> 'vdesktop'.

The lack of proper git tree and patches is a very unfortunate way to get
things started, I agree.

> That's a fork like it or not.

It is a branch of work.  The branch has been done without community
interaction, so yes, it looks like a fork.  The whole purpose of getting
spice licensed and released as an open source project is to work towards
eliminating the branch.

I'll repeat what Yaniv said already:

     Spice ship patched QEMU based on fairly old KVM snapshot as a reference
     implementation. The Spice team plane to push all the relevant bits into
     QEMU upstream.

I believe they wanted to get things out as soon as possible.

thanks,
-chris