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Features planned for upcoming qemu-0.13

Qemu developers have started planning for it's next release due in June 2010 with a list of features to be included. The release cycle has been increased to a 6 month cycle in order to better complete features. Lead developer Anthony Liguori also proposed having a two week release candidate cycle and other measures to prevent regressions after final release as was the case for 0.12. So far the following list of features will be included. Other features may be added as it has not been finalized yet.

  • gPXE support for virtio-blk
  • helper based network setup
  • balloon driver statistics
  • Fully supported QMP
  • Live migration protocol support for subvendor version
  • virtio-console
  • vhost-net
  • vepa networking 
  • kvm irqchip
  • guest SMP support

You can follow this discussion on the development mailing list at the following link.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-01/msg00168.html

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I remember when I started

I remember when I started using KVM. At that time it was fairly easy to understand what each feature does.

That time have long gone =)

Are there scheduled any plans for updates to virt-manager, so us less hardcore users can use these news features?

Re: I remember when I started

Yes, features are being added to kvm at an increasing rate. Other than the roadmap at the following link I haven't seen a specific schedule for virt-manager development.

http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/page/Roadmap

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