[ANNOUNCE] kvm-62 release

[ANNOUNCE] kvm-62 release

[Avi Kivity]

Add cpus on the fly to your virtual machines with the new cpu hotplug 
feature.

Changes from kvm-62:
- portability: make room for the ia64 register stack (Xiantao Zhang)
- fix leak when setting the pv clock to an invalid address (Marcelo Tosatti)
- detect vcpu triple faults (Joerg Roedel)
- fix race when instantiating a shadow pte
- fix host crash on guest kexec
- code cleanups (Harvey Harrison)
- better tsc handling on Intel hosts with stable tscs
- cpu hotplug (Glauber Costa)
- merge qemu-cvs
   - new curses display option
- change -hugetlb-path to -mem-path (Anthony Liguori)
- increase pci support from 6 slots to 32 slots
- document ./configure --disable-cpu-emulation (Jerone Young)
- fix powerpc cpu initialization (Jerone Young)
- simplify host_cpuid() assembly code


Notes:
      If you use the modules bundled with kvm-63, 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-62 release

[Alexey Eremenko]

Very Nice. Must be KVM-63.

>  - merge qemu-cvs
>    - new curses display option

How to activate that one?

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-62 release

[Avi Kivity]

Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> Very Nice. Must be KVM-63.
>
>   
>>  - merge qemu-cvs
>>    - new curses display option
>>     
>
> How to activate that one?
>
>   


qemu -curses

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-62 release

[Alexey Eremenko]

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> Very Nice. Must be KVM-63.
>
>   
>>  - merge qemu-cvs
>>    - new curses display option
>>     
>qemu -curses

I'm Sorry, but it doesn't works.

tux@suse103-ws32:~> /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -curses

/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: invalid option -- '-curses'

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-62 release

[Avi Kivity]

Alexey Eremenko wrote:
>
> > Very Nice. Must be KVM-63.
> >
> >  
> >>  - merge qemu-cvs
> >>    - new curses display option
> >>    
> >qemu -curses
>
> I'm Sorry, but it doesn't works.
>
> tux@suse103-ws32:~> /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -curses
>
> /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: invalid option -- '-curses'
>

It probably wasn't configured.  Do you have the devel package installed?

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KVM-63 - ncurses

[Alexey Eremenko]

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>It probably wasn't configured.  Do you have the devel package installed?

You are correct - it wasn't configured.

The problem is - I have the package (ncurses-devel) installed, but it is not detected.
KVM's "./configure" scripts skips it.

But it works on my Fedora machine.

I have a big problem with ncurses - once the VM enters Graphics Mode, it cannot be killed
with start Linux command: "ctrl+C" - tried from KDE Konsole. It can be killed only using "kill".
I think it's a bug.

Very nice feature BTW.

-Alexey

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Re: KVM-63 - ncurses

[Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:32:58AM -0800, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> 
>    I have a big problem with ncurses - once the VM enters Graphics Mode, it
>    cannot be killed
>    with start Linux command: "ctrl+C" - tried from KDE Konsole. It can be
>    killed only using "kill".

using xterm over pekwm (which traps "alt+2") I can use for that "esc+2"

  qemu> quit

konsole probably works with the default key bindings for the qemu console
under curses which is "alt+2".

Carlo

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Re: KVM-63 - ncurses

[Alexey Eremenko]

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>using xterm over pekwm (which traps "alt+2") I can use for that "esc+2"

>  qemu> quit

>konsole probably works with the default key bindings for the qemu console
under curses which is "alt+2".

Yes, Thanks Carlo, that worked.

Another problem, is that most standard OSes (including most Linux distros) use both Graphical GRUB + Graphical setup by default.

In the hope to improve this situation, I have filled a feature-request for openSUSE:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=347236

-Alexey, 6.3.2008.

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-62 release

[Avi Kivity]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Add cpus on the fly to your virtual machines with the new cpu hotplug 
> feature.
>

er, kvm-63, that is.

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