QAPI -- http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI - please review! - Anthony would like to see feedback and plans to commit in a week (assuming agreement and no major issues in review) - some concern about the maintainability of code generation - but still nothing concrete on the list, need to review and discuss on the list - some concern that implementation details may change the wire protocol - introduces a new mechanism for new signals (mask by default and enabled explicitly) - disagreement over when/how to introduce new extensions - libvirt feedback? - no protocol level changes - old and new versions are testable with test suite and proves this - c library implementation is critical to have unit tests and test driven development - thread safe? - no shared state, no statics. - threading model requires lock for the qmp session - licensiing? - LGPL - forwards/backwards compat? - designed with that in mind see wiki: http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI QCFG -- http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QCFG - command line args translation to objects is complex and buggy - schema + code generator to formalize this - formally describe each command line option and generate code to build and validate objects - provides systematic way to document command line options - automatically - device_add does multiple conversions to go from qmp to qemuopts to objects - move to basic c structures, and autogenerated marshalling code - no plan to do this work soon, late in 0.15 cycle - same as qapi, fork a tree, do mass conversion and merge for 0.16 cycle - qmp server mode to take all configuation commands before actually starting the guest - can provide a config file - qdev... - could just bridge to setting and getting qdev properties - OR get to point where device objects go directly to qdev device init - why not move command line to qmp instead of new schema? - single schema - considerations for -M (didn't capture all of these) - for all the details: http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QCFG Merging big changes - in the past, evolving in tree has not worked well, leaving partial conversions - QAPI/QCFG method of doing changes in external tree hopes to set new precedent - preserve patch/review on list - do full conversion - provide strong testing to show it works Kemari merge plans - just needs some ACKs - Juan, Anthony, anybody else who is familiar with migration to review? switch from gpxe to ipxe - possible 0.15 release w/ ipxe (Alex looking into it) - Michael Brown been helpful in fixing bugs, so compat - Alex will send out mail soon on the details - ipxe releases? not yet, there are plans for it, should be coming RSN - Stefan volunteers to help test -- 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
