From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-74 release Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:02:14 +0300 Message-ID: <48B677A6.5000307@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:39835 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751229AbYH1KCQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:02:16 -0400 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The big changes in this release come from upstream qemu: much improved usb support. You can now have qemu automatically assign usb devices to the guest, and performance and reliability should both be improved. For ia64 users, this is the first release that supports building the kvm external module. 2.6.26 hosts with preempt notifiers enabled are supported. Changes from kvm-73: - make real-mode startup state conform to spec - fix scheduling error in experimental big real mode support - fix reboot fault handler exception table entry (Eduardo Habkost) - x86 emulator code cleanup (Roel Kluin) - fix 'neg r/m' instruction emulation forced to byte size - fix shadow ptes corruption on i386 hosts running smp guests - fix kvmtrace ABI breakage (Adrian Bunk) - enable virtio for ia64 - add generic shadow page table walker - allocate internal guest memory as MAP_PRIVATE - don't call get_user_pages(.force=1) - paves the way for get_user_pages_fast() - add mov r, imm instructions to the emulator (Mohammed Gamal) - realmode emulator testsuite - ia64 external module support (Xiantao Zhang) - support tap IFF_VNET_HDR (Mark McLoughlin) - merge qemu-svn - improved usb support - usb auto connect/disconnect - protect against possible corruption during qemu fork() on older hosts (Marcelo Tosatti) Notes: If you use the modules bundled with kvm-74, you can use any version of Linux from 2.6.16 upwards. You may also use kvm-74 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 -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function