[ANNOUNCE] kvm-47 release

[ANNOUNCE] kvm-47 release

[Avi Kivity]

Today's news includes partial support for swapping.  You can now run 
guests with more memory than you have on the host, and Linux will page 
them out to the swap file.  The support is partial in that the guest 
will still pin a substantial amount of memory.

Changes from kvm-46:
- Reset fixes (Eddie Dong, me)
- Portability work (Carsten Otte)
- Cleanups (Anthony Liguori, Laurent Vivier)
- Simplify guest pagetable dirty bit management
- Fix nx bit for huge pages
- Fix write access to clean large pages (fixes rmap leak)
- Support for Linux 2.6.16 guests (movnti instruction) (Sheng Yang)
- Simplify apic timer backlog processing
- Move interrupt injection out of critical section
- x86 emulator work (Nitin A Kamble)
- restore freebsd support on AMD (fix smsw and lmsw) (Aurelien Jarno)
- Simplify guest page table walker
- Partial guest swapping (Izik Eidus)
- kvmctl improvements (Anthony Liguori)
- libkvm, qemu compilation against older kernels
- guest time accounting (Laurent Vivier)
- configure improvements (Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon)
- fix 4GB+ configurations (Izik Eidus)
- cross compilation support (Jerone Young)


Notes:
     If you use the modules bundled with kvm-47, 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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Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-47 release

[Haydn Solomon]

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Good day. First thanks for release 47.  This is to report a problem with
kvm-47 where my host locked up upon shutdown of windows 32 bit xp guest.
Guest was running for about 15 min before shutdown. Host locked up when
guest was at "you may now turn off your machine" screen.

Host Details:
=================
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 20:47:39 EDT
2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 15
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7500  @ 2.20GHz
stepping        : 10
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 4096 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm
constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4391.55
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

=========================

Thanks.

Haydn




On 10/18/07, Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Today's news includes partial support for swapping.  You can now run
> guests with more memory than you have on the host, and Linux will page
> them out to the swap file.  The support is partial in that the guest
> will still pin a substantial amount of memory.
>
> Changes from kvm-46:
> - Reset fixes (Eddie Dong, me)
> - Portability work (Carsten Otte)
> - Cleanups (Anthony Liguori, Laurent Vivier)
> - Simplify guest pagetable dirty bit management
> - Fix nx bit for huge pages
> - Fix write access to clean large pages (fixes rmap leak)
> - Support for Linux 2.6.16 guests (movnti instruction) (Sheng Yang)
> - Simplify apic timer backlog processing
> - Move interrupt injection out of critical section
> - x86 emulator work (Nitin A Kamble)
> - restore freebsd support on AMD (fix smsw and lmsw) (Aurelien Jarno)
> - Simplify guest page table walker
> - Partial guest swapping (Izik Eidus)
> - kvmctl improvements (Anthony Liguori)
> - libkvm, qemu compilation against older kernels
> - guest time accounting (Laurent Vivier)
> - configure improvements (Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon)
> - fix 4GB+ configurations (Izik Eidus)
> - cross compilation support (Jerone Young)
>
>
> Notes:
>      If you use the modules bundled with kvm-47, 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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Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-47 release

[Haydn Solomon]

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That was quick!  Don't have this problem with kvm48 anymore.

On 10/18/07, Haydn Solomon <haydn.solomon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Good day. First thanks for release 47.  This is to report a problem with
> kvm-47 where my host locked up upon shutdown of windows 32 bit xp guest.
> Guest was running for about 15 min before shutdown. Host locked up when
> guest was at "you may now turn off your machine" screen.
>
> Host Details:
> =================
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 20:47:39 EDT
> 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 15
> model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7500  @ 2.20GHz
> stepping        : 10
> cpu MHz         : 800.000
> cache size      : 4096 KB
> physical id     : 0
> siblings        : 2
> core id         : 0
> cpu cores       : 2
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 10
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm
> constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
> bogomips        : 4391.55
> clflush size    : 64
> cache_alignment : 64
> address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> power management:
>
> =========================
>
> Thanks.
>
> Haydn
>
>
>
>
> On 10/18/07, Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> > Today's news includes partial support for swapping.  You can now run
> > guests with more memory than you have on the host, and Linux will page
> > them out to the swap file.  The support is partial in that the guest
> > will still pin a substantial amount of memory.
> >
> > Changes from kvm-46:
> > - Reset fixes (Eddie Dong, me)
> > - Portability work (Carsten Otte)
> > - Cleanups (Anthony Liguori, Laurent Vivier)
> > - Simplify guest pagetable dirty bit management
> > - Fix nx bit for huge pages
> > - Fix write access to clean large pages (fixes rmap leak)
> > - Support for Linux 2.6.16 guests (movnti instruction) (Sheng Yang)
> > - Simplify apic timer backlog processing
> > - Move interrupt injection out of critical section
> > - x86 emulator work (Nitin A Kamble)
> > - restore freebsd support on AMD (fix smsw and lmsw) (Aurelien Jarno)
> > - Simplify guest page table walker
> > - Partial guest swapping (Izik Eidus)
> > - kvmctl improvements (Anthony Liguori)
> > - libkvm, qemu compilation against older kernels
> > - guest time accounting (Laurent Vivier)
> > - configure improvements (Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon)
> > - fix 4GB+ configurations (Izik Eidus)
> > - cross compilation support (Jerone Young)
> >
> >
> > Notes:
> >      If you use the modules bundled with kvm-47, 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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