We're now two weeks from the 0.6 feature freeze as per: http://www.spice-space.org/page/Releases/SpiceZeroPointSix
I think its time to figure out the current status so that we're focusing on the right things the following two weeks. Lets first start with the proposed feature list for the release: * Qemu integration We have a new qemu repository, based on the current upstream version, with clean patch-series using a new, nicer spice API. Patches have been posted upstream at least for the initial integration (no qxl device support yet though). There has been any feedback yet though, so its hard to judge the status here. Will it be possible to get this merged? * Surfaces This has landed and seems to generally work. The dependency calculations for surfaces is a bit lax atm due to a bug in the UPDATE_AREA_BY_TREE code in red_worker.c, so might not be as efficient as possible. However, generally this seems to work. * Marshalling layer for compatability We're now using the (de)marshalling layer for almost everything. The tunnel channel has not been ported yet to the new marshaller, but we're not sure exactly if and how tunneling should work anyway, so its not a real problem. * PCI compatibility layer We've landed most of this, however there are still a few items left to do before we can remove all use of draw.h from the qxl users and make the spice types internal. Missing types are: SpiceCursorHeader, SpiceImageDescriptor, SpiceBitmap, SpiceQUICData, SpiceSurface. When these are done we also need to move the draw.h header from spice-protocol to spice/common and remove the packed attributes. Also, when the image types are internalized we can do some changes to the demarshalling of them to avoid unnecessary copying of image data. * Improved support for WAN We have landed support for lossy compression (jpeg) and lz compression of glz images, for low bandwidth mode. We need to add some command line arguments to allow this to be enabled/tuned. This is a good basis for wan support, but needs ongoing measurements, tuning and tweaking. * Cut and paste between client and guest This has not landed yet. Arnon has been working on this and is now cleaning it up and testing it. We need to ensure that this happens before July 19th to hit the feature freeze. There are also some other things we need to look at: * New agent implementation We have a new agent implementation using virtio rather than a custom protocol. I believe the new qemu repositiory has the qemu side code for this and i don't think the spice side needs any changes. Right? However, we don't have a new win32 agent upstream yet, do we? And is the win32 virtio driver availible somewhere yet? Need to ensure this all happens. Alon, what is the status here? * Live migration With the new qemu stuff we've lost live migration. This would be very good to get back. I don't know the status of this and what blocks it. Gerd, what is the status here? * Making upstream easier to build We've removed the forked qcairo and qpixman, dropped the dependency on ffmpeg, made opengl and cegui optional. We've also split out the required headers from spice into spice-protocol so that drivers etc can build without a spice dependency. This all makes the upstream spice much easier to build, which should hopefully mean more contributors, etc. I don't think we have any more outstanding work here. Do we? * Network protocol changes We've bumped the major to 2 (well, atm it a high unstable number, but it will be 2 after the freeze). With this we've done a bunch of changes to the network protocol, like changing offsets to 32bit, and avoiding to send unused parts of messages, made enum fields smaller, and dropped unused clip paths and some line attributes. There are some outstanding changes here to avoid using offsets in more places that await the finishing of the pci compat layer. This is our one chance to remove stuff from the protocol though. We need to go through everything looking for if there is anything more to change before we freeze. Can people please look for things that could be better. * Migration from 0.4 to 0.6 This is not possible atm. Is it doable? Is it interesting? Opinions? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc al...@redhat.com alexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a fiendish umbrella-wielding hairdresser with a winning smile and a way with the ladies. She's a strong-willed wisecracking Valkyrie who believes she is the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian queen. They fight crime! _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel