Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-49 release

Haydn Solomon
2007-10-29T02:54:13Z

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Thanks Avi. Question: Does this release include the TPR optimization for
windows features?

On 10/28/07, Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Not a good hour for a coherent release announcement. Many fixes and
> some features. Hopefully I've spelled everyone's name correctly.
>
> Changes from kvm-48:
> - Fix PIT time-drift-fix (only with -no-kvm-irqchip) (Dan Kenigsberg)
> - Fix vnc auth error with clients <= 3.7 protocol (Dan Kenigsberg)
> - Don't spin on hlt with interrupts disabled (Dor Laor)
> - Fix pxe boot (Izik Eidus)
> - Hide the Intel real-mode tss from userspace (Izik Eidus)
> - Automatic memory slot management for libkvm (Izik Eidus)
> - Fix problem with std-vga and 4GB guests (Izik Eidus)
> - External module compat for smp_call_function_mask() (Laurent Vivier)
> - More portability work (Jerone Young, Christian Borntraeger, Zhang
> Xiantao)
> - Fix sleep-in-atomic-context during vcpu init
> - Fix 'push imm8' emulation (fixes W2K3 installer)
> - Intercept and emulate invd and wbinvd on AMD
> - Reduce emulator dependency on cr2 (mov abs insns)
> - Move page fault processing to common code
> - Fix rmap memory consumption oops due to increased rmap usage with swap
> - Fix potential memory leak with kernel-allocated memslots (Izik Eidus)
> - Export memory slot allocation mechanism (Izik Eidus)
> - Add kernel-private memslots (Izik Eidus)
> - Fix local apic divide-by-zero (Kevin Pedretti)
> - Improve local apic timer wraparound handling (Kevin Pedretti)
> - Use newly available smp_call_function_mask() (Laurent Vivier)
> - Micro-optimize register usage on vmentry/vmexit (Laurent Vivier)
> - Cleanups, compilation fixes (Akio Takebe, Anthony Liguori, me)
>
>
> Notes:
> If you use the modules bundled with kvm-49, you can use any version
> of Linux from 2.6.9 upwards.
> If you use the modules bundled with Linux 2.6.20, you need to use
> kvm-12.
> If you use the modules bundled with Linux 2.6.21, you need to use
> kvm-17.
> Modules from Linux 2.6.22 and up will work with any kvm version from
> kvm-22. Some features may only be available in newer releases.
> For best performance, use Linux 2.6.23-rc2 or later as the host.
>
> http://kvm.qumranet.com
>
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