On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 16:51 +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> writes: > > > (CC-ing 2x QEMU maintainers and stable release manager) > > > > The separate trees are a holdover from mercurial, which didn't (at the > > time) have a good in-repo branching model. > > > > I propose that Xen 4.6 should be the last release which uses these > > split > > trees and that instead we combine them into just qemu-xen.git > > (upstream) > > and qemu-xen-traditional.git (our old fork) > > (sorry my question is a bit unrelated) > > is there a proposed time frame for the retirement of > qemu-xen-traditional? http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/QEMU_Upstream only > mentions VGA passthrough as a missing feature but maybe it can be fixed > for 4.7?
AIUI people (from Intel?) are working on that. Due to Windows activation issues which are triggered by changing the h/w platform (aka QEMU) under the guest we are taking a long tail approach here and not actively looking to remove qemu-xen-traditional so that people with VMs installed under old versions can choose the stick with that h/w platform even on newer Xen. Eventually, some long time down the line, we may decide that the chances that anyone is still running such a VM is negligible and we can remove it. In the meantime qemu-xen-traditional is essentially frozen, no new features and only adjustments to e.g. keep up with changes to the control libraries etc are made. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
