[ANNOUNCE] kvm-57 release

[ANNOUNCE] kvm-57 release

[Avi Kivity]

The major focus for this release is a qemu-cvs merge, which brings many 
  new features, some introduced by kvm developers.  Examples are 
improved usb support and the new -drive qemu option.

While we've tested this carefully, this is a big merge so please handle 
this release with care and report any problems.

Changes from kvm-56:
- warn when emulating preempt notifiers
- add pio port 0x80 access test to testsuite
- merge qemu-cvs
- add rtc emulation for ia64 (Xiantao Zhang)
- fix qemu memory allocation off-by-one
- new kernel source layout (virt/kvm/, arch/x86/kvm/)
- coalesce remote tlb flushes when write-protecting guest pages (Eddie Dong)
- lapic debug compile fix (Joerg Roedel)
- fix smp mmu shadow instatiation race (Marcelo Tosatti)
- atomic cmpxchg8b on i386 (Marcelo Tosatti)
- throttle vmx_intr_assist() printk (Ryan Harper)
- portability (Xiantao Zhang)


Notes:
      If you use the modules bundled with kvm-57, you can use any version
of Linux from 2.6.17 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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Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-57 release

[Avi Kivity]

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:15:07PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> The major focus for this release is a qemu-cvs merge, which brings many 
>> new features, some introduced by kvm developers.
>>     
>
> but didn't include my changes to the IDE emulation to allow for OpenSolaris
> guests to be installed (patch 1 and 4) as shown in :
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20071128180630.GA351%40tapir&forum_name=kvm-devel
>
> will rebase them (they conflict with the qemu's gcc4 compilation fixes) and
> resend them.
>
>   

Thanks.  Will apply.

>> Notes:
>>       If you use the modules bundled with kvm-57, you can use any version
>> of Linux from 2.6.17 upwards.
>>     
>
> just realized I made a typo in my original report for backward compatibility
> but you got it right :)
>   

It was accidental, I assure you :)

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-57 release

[Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:15:07PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> The major focus for this release is a qemu-cvs merge, which brings many 
> new features, some introduced by kvm developers.

but didn't include my changes to the IDE emulation to allow for OpenSolaris
guests to be installed (patch 1 and 4) as shown in :

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20071128180630.GA351%40tapir&forum_name=kvm-devel

will rebase them (they conflict with the qemu's gcc4 compilation fixes) and
resend them.

> Notes:
>       If you use the modules bundled with kvm-57, you can use any version
> of Linux from 2.6.17 upwards.

just realized I made a typo in my original report for backward compatibility
but you got it right :)

2.6.17 will only work if compiled with CONFIG_SMP=y but shouldn't affect any
distribution that provides kvm packages AFAIK (Gentoo will be affected, but
the packages provided there are not official)

Carlo

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