[ANNOUNCE] kvm-74 release

Avi Kivity
2008-08-28T10:02:16Z

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

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