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2.6.27 KVM numbers are incorrect

Posted Jul 3, 2008 11:44 UTC (Thu) by Felix_the_Mac (guest, #32242)
In reply to: 2.6.27 KVM numbers are incorrect by avik
Parent article: Some development statistics for 2.6.26 - and beyond


Avi,

I am unsure how the KVM changelog (http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog) relates to the
kernel version.

i.e. Will 2.6.26-release contain all (kernel parts) of KVM-70?
Or will that be in 2.6.27-rc1?

How can one tell?

Thanks

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Posted Jul 3, 2008 13:56 UTC (Thu) by avik (guest, #704) [Link]

There's no 1:1 correspondence.

kvm-nn releases are development snapshots, really, and contain new features, bug fixes, and
new bugs.

Linux releases will generally contain the last kvm snapshot before the merge windows starts,
and bug fixes that accumulate in the 2+ months up to the release.  So 2.6.27-rc1 will roughly
contain kvm-70 plus all bug fixes since applied.

2.6.27 KVM numbers are incorrect

Posted Jul 6, 2008 11:59 UTC (Sun) by Felix_the_Mac (guest, #32242) [Link]

Thanks for the explanation.

"So 2.6.27-rc1 will roughly contain kvm-70 plus all bug fixes since applied."

Unless KVM-71 comes out soon! :-)