From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-81 release
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:19:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49464B53.7010406@redhat.com> (raw)
This release fixes a bunch of display regressions, and restores
userspace/kernel compatibility with older kernel modules. There are a
few other goodies hidden in there, for example scsi is now enabled on
>4G guests.
Changes from kvm-80:
- merge qemu-svn
- fix performance regression with qcow2 files
- improve qcow2 data integrity with cache=writethrough
- fix display corruption with gnome panel auto-appear
- scsi improvements
- shld/shrd instruction emulation and unit test (Guillaume Thouvenin)
- ppc updates (Hollis Blanchard, Deepa Srinivasan, Christian Ehrhardt)
- prepare virtio for upstream merging (Anthony Liguori)
- fix uninitialized variable in virtio-net (Anthony Liguori)
- fix compile failure on Debian (Amit Shah)
- fix display loss in opensuse 11 installer
- fix vmmcall emulation on intel (Amit Shah)
- fixes amd->intel migration
- allow userspace to work with modules from kvm-79 and earlier
- fix undefined behaviour copying cpuid signature (Guillaume Thouvenin)
- fix build with --kerneldir (Maik Hentsche)
- really exit if device assignment fails (Mark McLoughlin)
- fix vga on ia64 (Xiantao Zhang)
- simplify nmi injection from userspace (Jan Kiszka)
- enable virtio zero-copy (Mark McLoughlin)
- also fixes crash in rare cases
- fix display loss on 32-bit hosts
- reduce tlb flushing when resyncing pages (Marcelo Tosatti)
- don't resync global pages on context switch (Marcelo Tosatti)
- improves HIGHMEM performance
- prepopulate shadow on invlpg (Marcelo Tosatti)
- fix kvmclock when HZ != 1000 (Eduardo Habkost)
- fix module unload race oops (Christian Borntraeger)
- reduce stack footprint on large hosts (Rusty Russell)
- reduce capability reporting code duplication
- check for missing pae pdptr on invlpg emulation (Marcelo Tosatti)
- fixes solaris 10 oops
- fix handlig of ack from irq shared between assigned and emulated devices
(Mark McLoughlin)
- fix nmi-vs-irq race for -no-kvm-irqchip (Jan Kiszka)
Notes:
If you use the modules bundled with kvm-81, you can use any version
of Linux from 2.6.16 upwards. You may also use kvm-81 userspace with
the kvm modules provided by Linux 2.6.25 or above. Some features may
only be available in newer releases.
http://kvm.qumranet.com
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next reply other threads:[~2008-12-15 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-15 12:19 Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-12-15 14:21 ` [ANNOUNCE] kvm-81 release Farkas Levente
2008-12-15 14:24 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-15 15:04 ` Farkas Levente
2008-12-15 15:16 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-16 11:44 ` Farkas Levente
2008-12-16 17:49 ` Simon Gao
2008-12-23 17:36 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-23 18:08 ` Simon Gao
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