On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:41:23 +0200 Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- 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
