[fedora-virt] F12 virt features - what will or won't make it in?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:31:44PM -0700, Dale Bewley wrote:
> Following on the heals of John Poelstra, I was taking a look at all the
> F12 Virt Features with the release notes in mind.
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:F12_Virt_Features
> 
> That's an impressive and ambitious list!

I'm feeling the pain trying to get it all done :-)

> = Accepted =
> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtgPXE
> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtioSerial
> 
> = Pending =
> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Hostinfo
> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_Huge_Page_Backed_Memory
> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_NIC_Hotplug
> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_qcow2_Performance
> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/libguestfs - 
> : Technically, made it into F11, but...
> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SR-IOV

Essentially all there in rawhide already

> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VHostNet
> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtTCK

Definitely get this

> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtStorageManagement

Yep, have most of this  in current libvirt in rawhide

> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Xen_to_KVM_migration
> 
> = Unlikely? =
> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KSM
> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_Stable_Guest_ABI
> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_Stable_PCI_Addresses

These 3 are questions for Mark M ...

> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Shared_Network_Interface

Definltey get this

> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtAppliances

This one is questionable at this stage.

> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtAuthorization

Very unlikely, will shift to F13

> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtPrivileges

Must have.

> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtVNCResourceTunnel

Will only be partially done. Likely dropping serial-over-VNC in favour
of a plan b, todo serial-over-libvirt

> * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0

Unlikely due to ongoing upstream kenrel work

Daniel
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