Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-14 release

Daniel P. Berrange
2007-02-19T13:16:33Z

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:01:36PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> The big news here is the update to qemu 0.9.0.
>
> Changes from kvm-13:
> - qemu 0.9.0
> - too many goodies to list
> - kvm can no longer share qemu's bios on Intel hosts due to real mode
> trouble. use the supplied bios.
> - migration now based on Anthony Liguori's live migration patches (Uri
> Lublin)
> - currently, only non-live migration is supported under kvm
> - handle smi on host on AMD hosts (Joerg Roedel)
> - random fixes
>
> Note that if you use the modules from Linux 2.6.20, you need to use
> kvm-12. You can use kvm-14 with Linux 2.6.20, provided you use the
> external module included in kvm-14.

Is there back-compatability in the reverse direction ? ie, will the
new kmod from kvm-14 work with the older kvm-12 userspace ?

Regards,
Dan.
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