[Libvir] Features and roadmap tentative draft

Hugh Brock hbrock at redhat.com
Fri Feb 9 16:19:56 UTC 2007


Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   We had a meeting this week in the Red Hat team and looked at the
> work ahead for libvirt. We identified a set of feature that we would
> like to get in, the time frame (mostly based on Fedora releases schedules)
> and tried to identify remaining issues:
> 
> Features        when        Issues
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> KEmu & KVM      FC7         Wire API , the way the process is controlled 
>                 mid feb     will probably change, but requires QEmu upstream
>                             extensions of the monitor
> remote access   FC8         Naming (URIs), Authentication and wire protocol
>                             inetd hook, XML format slight change for dhcp
> Virtual Network FC7         Sharing QEmu, root priviledge for the daemon
>                             isolation
> Migration       FC8         API design
> Access Control  ???         depends on Xen Security Module, KVM equivalent
> Storage         ???         Early concept, will be discussed separately
>                             on the mailing-list
> Sync virsh shutdown FC7     Easy to add in virsh
> 
> 
> I expect to make a new libvirt release with the KEmu and KVM support as
> well as a first version of the virtual network support next week. Then
> the focus will be on remote support and adding migration to the API.

I've just posted a similar list for virt-manager to 
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--Hugh




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