Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 22:30 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >>> qemu-kvm-0.10.4 is now available. This is the first release of the 0.10 >>> stable branch of qemu-kvm. The qemu-kvm 0.10.4 includes all of the >>> features and fixes of qemu-0.10.4, plus adaptations for improved kvm >>> support. >>> >>> Note that qemu-kvm releases do not include the kvm external modules >>> (kvm*.ko); you can use the modules provided by your distribution, >>> modules from the development releases (kvm-xx), or from the kvm-kmod >>> stable branch releases once they become available. >>> >>> As this is the first release of this branch there is no changelog; >>> qemu-kvm-0.10.4 is roughly equivalent (but is not identical) to qemu >>> from kvm-84. >> this's the plan? ie. the stable userspace will be about kvm-84? >> what's the plan for kvm-kmod release date and it's also be somewhere ~ 84? > > AIUI it, the plan is: > > - There will be stable releases of qemu-kvm in sync with qemu > upstream releases - e.g. you can expect a qemu-kvm-0.11.0 release > shortly after qemu-0.11.0 is released > > - There will be no stable releases, as such, of the kernel module. > You should use upstream linux releases instead - e.g. the latest > stable release is 2.6.29.2 > > - The kvm-XX releases are development snapshots of the kvm.git and > qemu-kvm.git code > > For example, in Fedora, our plan is that we will ship the kvm.ko > included in upstream linux releases and the qemu-kvm stable releases[1]. > We may include qemu-kvm from kvm-XX releases during the development of > the next Fedora release, but only as a preview of the next qemu-kvm > stable release. and what's the plan for rhel-5.4? in this case latest stable kernel can't be used since 5.x series are always 2.6.18 based and if there is not a stable kvm-kmod branch then...? -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
