Re: [Qemu-devel] Planning for 0.13

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:43:11AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I hope everyone had a happy new year!  Now that we've finished the 0.12 
> > release and most of us have had a nice break, I think it's time to start 
> > planning for the next release.
> > 
> > 0.12 felt a bit rushed to me.  I'd like to take a bit more time with 
> > 0.13 and try to complete features a bit more than we did in 0.12.  So I 
> > propose that we target 0.13 as a 6-month cycle and target a June 1st 
> > release.  Based on the -rc process for 0.12, I would like to have a two 
> > week -rc cycle for 0.13 but this time, absolutely no non-bug fixes past 
> > freeze.  We got sloppy in 0.12 with this and we had some ugly 
> > regressions in the final release.
> > 
> > Here are the features that I'm aware of for 0.13.  Please add anything 
> > you're working on and I'll try to centralize this somewhere.
> > 
> >  - gPXE support for virtio-blk
> >  - Helper based network setup
> >  - Balloon driver statistics
> >  - Fully supported QMP
> >  - Live migration protocol support for subvendor versions (aka features)
> > 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I think Xen folks were planning to push (some) Xen qemu-dm patches for 
> upstream
> Qemu 0.13.
> 
> Discussion here:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-01/msg00200.html
> 

Yes, we are going to try to upstream Xen support in Qemu, hopefully
we'll finish in time for 0.13, but we just started the work so I don't
know yet for sure.