Il 21/08/2013 11:08, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:12:21PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 20 August 2013 11:56, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> I guess "patches are welcome"---if they are of good quality, why not. >> >> Well, sort of. Given the fairly minimal level of support we currently >> have for OSX (ie Andreas and I test it a bit and fix egregious breakage), >> I'd prefer it if patches for significant new features came attached to a >> developer who was going to stay around and help maintain the platform :-) > > Yes, the maintenance and testing is the hard part. > > Whoever steps up to the maintainer: be prepared to run builds and test > at least release candidates. And then get ready to git-bisect(1) when > broken commits were merged and write fixes. The more often you do this, > the shorter the bisect. > > It's a fair bit of work.
Still, I must say merging Xen has given us zero headaches. It's taken a while, but (at least from the QEMU project's POV) the wait has been worthwhile. I would hope that HAXN support would be almost as easy as adding haxn-all.c and haxn-stub.c files, and a few small changes to cpus.c and vl.c. Paolo
