KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management

As a sysadmin who switched from VMWare to KVM some time ago, my perception is virtualization *is* happening in the datacenter first ($ driven) and on the desktop second. KVM desktop virtualization is not suffering too badly. The libvirt based virt-manager tool has been improving over time and brings a pretty good ease of use to setting up a VM on the Linux desktop. Stuff like VMGL and wined3d enabled VM's at the click of a button would be a killer desktop app, but for us datacenter folks a stable server environment that brings the $ to me, Linux vendors, and their KVM developers is extremely important. Are these two goals really mutually exclusive? Hopefully not. A shakeup in the development model which intrudes on stability and progress of server side KVM/Qemu could actually threaten Linux desktop viability.