[Libvir] Features and roadmap tentative draft

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. Other various issues raised: - URL/drivers, making sure that the last proposal for URI used in remote connection are okay - python bindings: disable automatic generation, handle manually, extend - one Xen driver: currently implemented on top of 3 drivers, clean it up - go though errors, cleaning up duplicates - compile without Xen, once KEmu and KVM support gets added - documentation cleanup: generation and CVS, checkout on libvirt.org - export the config parser API at the shared library with __ prefix since that's used by the daemons but not - semantic of virConnect(NULL) is a bit fuzzy, Xen or default engine ? - Need to plug libxml2 memory routines for memory debug Of course the details will be discussed on the list, but at least it gets a bit clearer where we expect to spend time, but as always other features and feedback is more than welcome, it's needed, so if there is any issue or comments on our viewpoint of the roadmap and feature, please share them :-) Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/