[ANNOUNCE] kvm-71 release

[ANNOUNCE] kvm-71 release

[Avi Kivity]

Again, this took longer than I'd like, but the new release is finally 
out. It's composed mainly of incremental fixes, but important ones.

Changes from kvm-70:
- fix virtio isr clearing (Laurent Vivier)
- kvmtrace ppc userspace support (Jerone Young)
- avoid fragmenting virtio-blk transfers (Anthony Liguori, Mark McLoughlin)
- ia64 build fixes (Anthony Xu)
- remove unnecessary virtio-net printout (Marcelo Tosatti)
- remove configure warning about gcc 3 (Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon)
- rhel 5.2/centos 5.2 host support
- merge qemu-svn
  - adds pulseaudio driver
  - nbd client/server
- disable cpu emulation by default on ia64 (Xiantao Zhang)
- place test support files in a library (Jerone Young)
- fix qemu monitor screendump
- fix lost interrupt when changing a device irq
  - fixes devices going away when disabled and enabled several times
- fix oops on shutdown freeing coalesced mmio page (Akio Takebe)
- optimize segment register access in emulator
- allow run-time enabling of mmu debug
- fix host msr corruption when host preempt is enabled
- fix kvmclock (Gerd Hoffmann)
- rename badly named msrs (Sheng Yang)
- fix incorrect usage of vmcs_config when using ept (Sheng Yang)
- emulate performance counter msrs on Intel (Chris Lalancette)
  - allows Linux 2.6.9 guests to boot
- optimize vapic locking when disabled (Marcelo Tosatti)
- don't allocate dirty bitmap for s390 (Catsten Otte)
- fix memory leak on guest exit (Carsten Otte)
- update s390 guest base and limit (Christian Borntraeger)
- optimize access to guest registers (Marcelo Tosatti)
- add memory clobber to hypercalls (Anthony Liguori)
  - fixes booting guests compiled with gcc 4.3
- fix ioapic hang on heavy load (Mark McLoughlin)
- move kvmtrace definitions to common header (Hollis Blanchard)
- fix suspend/resume on AMD (Joerg Roedel)
- make some functions static (Adrian Bunk)
- fix shrinker locking (Marcelo Tosatti)
- fix ept tlb flush (Sheng Yang)
- fix signal handling on uninitialized vcpus
- fix hlt instruction in real mode (Mohammed Gamal)
- check pic irq range (Ben-Ami Yassour)
- add function to inject irqs into guests (Amit Shah)

Notes:
     If you use the modules bundled with kvm-70, you can use any version
of Linux from 2.6.16 upwards.  You may also use kvm-70 userspace with 
the kvm modules provided by Linux 2.6.22 or above.  Some features may 
only be available in newer releases.

http://kvm.qumranet.com


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-71 release

[Farkas Levente]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Again, this took longer than I'd like, but the new release is finally 
> out. It's composed mainly of incremental fixes, but important ones.
> 
> Changes from kvm-70:
> - fix virtio isr clearing (Laurent Vivier)
> - kvmtrace ppc userspace support (Jerone Young)
> - avoid fragmenting virtio-blk transfers (Anthony Liguori, Mark McLoughlin)
> - ia64 build fixes (Anthony Xu)
> - remove unnecessary virtio-net printout (Marcelo Tosatti)
> - remove configure warning about gcc 3 (Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon)
> - rhel 5.2/centos 5.2 host support

but this bug on 5.2 (which is similar that i already reported with 70) 
is still in and the previously applied patch is not working anymore:
-----------------------------------------
make KDIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-x86_64
make -C /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-x86_64 M=`pwd` \
		LINUXINCLUDE="-I`pwd`/include -Iinclude -I`pwd`/include-compat \
		-include include/linux/autoconf.h \
		-include `pwd`/external-module-compat.h"
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-x86_64'
   LD      /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-71/_kmod_build_/kernel/built-in.o
   CC [M]  /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-71/_kmod_build_/kernel/svm.o
In file included from <command line>:2:
/home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-71/_kmod_build_/kernel/external-module-compat.h:360: 
error: redefinition of typedef 'bool'
include/linux/types.h:36: error: previous declaration of 'bool' was here
-----------------------------------------

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   Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-71 release (typedef 'bool' on RHEL 5.2)

[Erik Bussink]

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:00 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Again, this took longer than I'd like, but the new release is finally 
> out. It's composed mainly of incremental fixes, but important ones.
> 
> Changes from kvm-70:
> ...
> - rhel 5.2/centos 5.2 host support

Thanks for the new release Avi. I'm trying to get kvm-71 to compile on
RHEL 5.2 (x86_64), but I'm running in a typedef 'bool' issue.
Here is my output... I've run thru the 1st make, so this make only shows
the problem.

[root@eowyn kvm-71]# uname -a
Linux eowyn.bussink.local 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jun 20 02:36:06
 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[root@eowyn kvm-71]# make
make -C libkvm
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/src/kvm-71/libkvm'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/src/kvm-71/libkvm'
make -C extboot
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/src/kvm-71/extboot'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/src/kvm-71/extboot'
if ! [ -f qemu/pc-bios/extboot.bin ] \
           || ! cmp -s qemu/pc-bios/extboot.bin extboot/extboot.bin;
then \
                cp extboot/extboot.bin qemu/pc-bios/extboot.bin; \
        fi
make -C qemu
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/src/kvm-71/qemu'
make -C x86_64-softmmu all
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/src/kvm-71/qemu/x86_64-softmmu'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/src/kvm-71/qemu/x86_64-softmmu'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/src/kvm-71/qemu'
make -C kernel
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/src/kvm-71/kernel'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.6.el5/build M=`pwd` \
                LINUXINCLUDE="-I`pwd`/include -Iinclude
-I`pwd`/include-compat \
                -include include/linux/autoconf.h \
                -include `pwd`/external-module-compat.h"
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-x86_64'
  CC [M]  /root/src/kvm-71/kernel/svm.o
In file included from <command line>:2:
/root/src/kvm-71/kernel/external-module-compat.h:360: error:
redefinition of typedef ‘bool’
include/linux/types.h:36: error: previous declaration of ‘bool’ was here
make[3]: *** [/root/src/kvm-71/kernel/svm.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/root/src/kvm-71/kernel] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-x86_64'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/src/kvm-71/kernel'
make: *** [kernel] Error 2
[root@eowyn kvm-71]# 

Thanks for the good work.
Erik

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-71 release

[Erik Bussink]

Oops sorry for the dupe error reporting. 

Regards,
Erik Bussink

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-71 release

[Jindrich Makovicka]

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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:00:37 +0300
Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:

> Again, this took longer than I'd like, but the new release is finally 
> out. It's composed mainly of incremental fixes, but important ones.

[...]

I needed to trivially modify configure to be able to build ALSA audio

(via ./configure --audio-drv-list=alsa)

Fix attached.

-- 
Jindrich Makovicka

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--- configure.orig	2008-07-10 15:20:48.000000000 +0200
+++ configure	2008-07-15 21:34:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@
 }
 
 while [[ "$1" = -* ]]; do
-    opt="$1"; shift
+    optorig="$1"; shift
+    opt=$opt
     arg=
     if [[ "$opt" = *=* ]]; then
 	arg="${opt#*=}"
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@
 	    usage
 	    ;;
 	*)
-	    qemu_opts="$qemu_opts $opt"
+	    qemu_opts="$qemu_opts $optorig"
 	    ;;
     esac
 done

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-71 release

[Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:35:56PM +0200, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:00:37 +0300
> Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Again, this took longer than I'd like, but the new release is finally 
> > out. It's composed mainly of incremental fixes, but important ones.
> 
> [...]
> 
> I needed to trivially modify configure to be able to build ALSA audio
> 
> (via ./configure --audio-drv-list=alsa)

this will disable the default driver of "oss" and only enable alsa, where
most likely what you want is :

./configure --audio-drv-list="alsa oss"

> Fix attached.

the fix proposed wouldn't allow for a list of drivers passed and is
incorrectly assigning opt to itself and should do instead :

  opt="$optorig"

sadly, the only solution I could come with, violates the current layering
by handling the two list options in kvm instead, at least as a passthrough
that would preserve the parameter count and formatting.

Carlo