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Re: [Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Schedule for Xen 3.0.4



Hi!

What's the status of (live) migration of fully virtualized guests? Will it
be in 3.0.4 ?

Thanks.

-- Pasi

On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:28:43AM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> The xen-unstable tree has seen significant progress since 3.0.3 was forked,
> particularly in HVM cleanup and bug fixing. SMP and ACPI HVM guests now work
> reliably, as does the Windows Vista installer. Many of these improvements
> are the result of large patches and interface cleanups that are unsuitable
> for backporting to 3.0.3. Since we'd like to make these improvements
> available to Xen users as soon as possible, now seems a good time to call a
> feature freeze in preparation for 3.0.4.
> 
> I propose the following schedule: At the end of November we declare the
> feature freeze. We'd like to get in some more patchsets before this cutoff
> -- in particular the kexec/kdump patches and the paravirtual framebuffer
> support. Following this, and depending on good testing results, we tag
> release candidates for 3.0.4 once or twice a week until we have a tree
> suitable for final release (hopefully by the middle of December). Meanwhile
> we focus on any lurking performance and correctness bugs that have been
> introduced during the recent spike in check-in activity.
> 
> These plans are part of a more general move to more frequent Xen releases.
> By shortening the development phase of our release cycle we can keep tighter
> tabs on the status of the Xen tree, resulting in better prediction of
> release dates and faster release of new features and enhancements to the Xen
> user community!
> 
>  Cheers,
>  Keir (and the Xen team)
> 

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