Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-10-14 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 03:09:28PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 08 October 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > Jens Osterkamp wrote: > > > On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > > > >> Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere. > > >>

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-10-14 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 08:53:55AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> There are two reasons why I think this backend is important: >> >> - As an easy way to provide isolation between guests (private ethernet >> port aggregator, PEPA) and external enforcement of network privil

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-10-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Arnd Bergmann wrote: There are two reasons why I think this backend is important: - As an easy way to provide isolation between guests (private ethernet port aggregator, PEPA) and external enforcement of network priviledges (virtual ethernet port aggregator, VEPA) using the macvlan subsystem

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-10-14 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 08 October 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Jens Osterkamp wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > >> Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere. > >> > > > > What about Or Gerlitz' raw backend driver ? I did not see it go in

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-10-08 Thread Anthony Liguori
Jens Osterkamp wrote: On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: 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 (

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-10-08 Thread Jens Osterkamp
On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: > 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 por

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-10-05 Thread Avi Kivity
On 10/05/2009 02:43 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote: Are you using a standard json parser with your test script? That's an additional validation. I'm using Python's json module, but I could run one of the checkers listed in the json's page for each test, before the Python's module kicks in.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-10-05 Thread Luiz Capitulino
On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:04:57 +0200 Avi Kivity wrote: > On 10/01/2009 11:13 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > >> If we're going to support the protocol for 0.12, I'd like to most of the > >> code merged by the end of October. > >> > > Four weeks.. Not so much time, but let's try. > > > > Ther

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-10-03 Thread Avi Kivity
On 10/01/2009 11:13 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote: If we're going to support the protocol for 0.12, I'd like to most of the code merged by the end of October. Four weeks.. Not so much time, but let's try. There are two major issues that may delay QMP. Firstly, we are still on the infra

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-10-02 Thread TAKEDA, toshiya
Anthony Liguori さんは書きました: >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 fo

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-10-01 Thread Luiz Capitulino
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:05:16 -0500 Anthony Liguori wrote: > Avi Kivity 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 >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 09/30/09 16:45, Anthony Liguori wrote: One reason I branch is because some people care a bit less about releases so it makes the process non-disruptive to them. If the other maintainers agreed though, I would certainly like to have the master branch essentially frozen for the week before the r

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Blue Swirl
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 30.09.2009 15:07, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >>> However, to run coreboot on Qemu with the same init sequence as on >>> simplified real hardware, we need Cache-as-RAM (CAR) support. [...] >> >> Do we r

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 30.09.2009 15:07, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> However, to run coreboot on Qemu with the same init sequence as on >> simplified real hardware, we need Cache-as-RAM (CAR) support. [...] > > Do we really need coreboot to use the same init sequence? coreboot > is fir

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Luiz Capitulino
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:03:23 +0200 Fred Leeflang wrote: > 2009/9/30 Anthony Liguori > > > Luiz Capitulino wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:53 -0500 > >> Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3 month > >>> cycle and

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Anthony Liguori
Luiz Capitulino wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:53 -0500 Anthony Liguori wrote: 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 ab

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:03:20AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Hi Isaku, > > Isaku Yamahata wrote: >> o newer chipset (which is based on Q35 chipset) >> o multiple pci bus o PCI express (MMCONFIG) >> o PCI express hot plug (not acpi based) >> o PCI express switch emulator >> >> Although th

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Luiz Capitulino
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:41:23 +0200 Avi Kivity 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 ve

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Luiz Capitulino
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:53 -0500 Anthony Liguori wrote: > 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 i

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Anthony Liguori
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Hi, On 30.09.2009 01:54, Anthony Liguori wrote: Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0. 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-i3

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity 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.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Anthony Liguori
Hi Isaku, Isaku Yamahata wrote: o newer chipset (which is based on Q35 chipset) o multiple pci bus o PCI express (MMCONFIG) o PCI express hot plug (not acpi based) o PCI express switch emulator Although there is no PCIe emulated device at the moment, this will be a fundamental infrastru

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, On 30.09.2009 01:54, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0. > > 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). > > o switch to

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/30/2009 10:53 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: [] 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 guest SMP support f

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-30 Thread Michael Tokarev
Anthony Liguori wrote: [] 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 guest SMP support for KVM Hmm. What is this, can you elaborate a

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-29 Thread Avi Kivity
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

Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-29 Thread Isaku Yamahata
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:54:53PM -0500, 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