[Since Hilko asked me about this on IRC ...] The current plan is to rebase libguestfs in RHEL 6.3: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719879 I would like to get as many features from upstream libguestfs into this as possible, but also make sure they have been well-tested by Fedora users. Also there are some new tools arriving in libguestfs upstream in the current development branch (1.13.x): - virt-alignment-scan http://libguestfs.org/virt-alignment-scan.1.html - virt-sparsify http://libguestfs.org/virt-sparsify.1.html - A tool (or tools) to replace virt-clone https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/virt-tools-survey-virt-clone/ So this is my plan, assuming no one has any strong objections: (1) Continue development of the new virt tools in libguestfs for the rest of this month. (2) Release 1.14.0 new stable branch around the end of this month (Oct'11) (3) Put this new stable version into Fedora 16 after 16 is released. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/Schedule (4) Test, test, test. Backport bugfixes into 1.14.x branch as per the usual plan. http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#libguestfs_version_numbers (5) Put 1.14.x into RHEL 6.3 (around 1Q 2012). Comments? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top