I've been busy at my day job and not paying close enough attention to Fedora 11 docs deadlines. Apparently the window for changes essentially closes Wednesday (today).[1]
The notes are essentially in place. I don't think there are any gaping holes, but I should have prompted for feedback much sooner. If you could apply any love to the release notes[2] it would be appreciated.
= QEMU / KVM = It is noted that QEMU and KVM are merging as a package, but I've also separately listed the fact that QEMU is now 0.10.0 and KVM is now 84.
With the merge, might it be confusing or inaccurate to mention a distinct new version of KVM? I'll admit to being somewhat fuzzy on where/how that line is drawn.
I see[3] QEMU 0.10.0 in rawhide, but not 0.10.1, so I adjusted the version in the relnotes. I copied the feature list from the 0.10.0 release announcement. If you'd care to suggest deletes or enhancements of the list please do.
The KVM changelog since 74 (version at initial F10 release) is quite long and not easily digestible by me at this late hour. Would anyone care to offer some highlights or fill them into the wiki? Or, again, should those be folded into QEMU?
= Libvirt = I previously copied the list of changes from the releases, but did not try to prune them down. It may be fine.
= The Current Outline = 1 Virtualization * 1.1 Improved VNC Authentication for Virtual Machine Management * 1.2 Improved Graphical Console for Virtual Machines * 1.3 KVM PCI Device Assignment * 1.4 KVM and QEMU merge * 1.5 SVirt Mandatory Access Control * 1.6 Other Improvements * 1.6.1 QEMU Updated to 0.10.0 * 1.6.2 KVM Updated to 84 * 1.6.3 libvirt Updated to 0.6.1 * 1.6.4 virt-manager Updated to 0.7.0 * 1.6.5 virtinst Updated to 0.400.3 * 1.6.6 Xen Updated to 3.3.1 * 1.7 Xen Kernel Support
Thanks for any edits or suggestions you can offer.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-March/msg00232.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Virtualization_Beat
Hi Dale,
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 23:48 -0700, Dale Bewley wrote:
I've been busy at my day job and not paying close enough attention to Fedora 11 docs deadlines. Apparently the window for changes essentially closes Wednesday (today).[1]
The notes are essentially in place. I don't think there are any gaping holes, but I should have prompted for feedback much sooner. If you could apply any love to the release notes[2] it would be appreciated.
Yep, I think they look in good shape.
= QEMU / KVM = It is noted that QEMU and KVM are merging as a package, but I've also separately listed the fact that QEMU is now 0.10.0 and KVM is now 84.
With the merge, might it be confusing or inaccurate to mention a distinct new version of KVM? I'll admit to being somewhat fuzzy on where/how that line is drawn.
I see[3] QEMU 0.10.0 in rawhide, but not 0.10.1, so I adjusted the version in the relnotes. I copied the feature list from the 0.10.0 release announcement. If you'd care to suggest deletes or enhancements of the list please do.
Yes, this is a very confusing - not least because it's going to change before the release.
What we plan on shipping is a version of kvm-userspace which is based off the qemu-0.10.x branch.
So - F11 will have qemu-0.10.1 at the very least.
The KVM changelog since 74 (version at initial F10 release) is quite long and not easily digestible by me at this late hour. Would anyone care to offer some highlights or fill them into the wiki? Or, again, should those be folded into QEMU?
Pointing at the kvm ChangeLog is probably the best you can do, really.
There's added confusion there too - the kvm release changelog covers both userspace and kernel space, and we don't ship a specific kernel kvm version ... we ship whatever is in Linus releases.
= Libvirt = I previously copied the list of changes from the releases, but did not try to prune them down. It may be fine.
Pruning it down a little might be good - e.g. "gnulib updates" doesn't tell people anything useful. Not a big deal, though.
Cheers, Mark.
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Dale Bewley -
Mark McLoughlin