Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-36 release

Gunther Persoons
2007-08-22T18:50:53Z

I noticed the idle cpu usage for kvm-36 running windows xp 32 bit as
guest is much higher.
For kvm-35 this was around 2-4%, running kvm-36 it's 22% - 26%.

2007/8/22, Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>:
> The lapic branch is still stalled on smp, but Windows x64 and large
> memory support are each a good reason for a release, so here's kvm-36.
>
> Changes from kvm-35:
> - support guests with more than 2GB of RAM on 64-bit hosts (Izik Eidus)
> - fix rare host oops on guest context switch
> - avoid smp_call_function_single() warning on suspend/resume
> - more real mode emulator work (Nitin A Kamble)
> - Windows x64 support (Sheng Yang)
> - close minor signal handling race
> - carry bios in kvm source tree for easier maintenance
> - fix -std-vga (Uri Lublin)
> - advertise kvm in vnc window title (Matthew Kent)
> - fix Windows SMP guests consuming cpu time when idle (Igor Lvovsky)
>
> Notes:
> If you use the modules bundled with kvm-36, 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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