From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-75 release Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:24:20 +0300 Message-ID: <48C7D894.1060304@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: KVM list Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:57486 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751943AbYIJOYV (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:24:21 -0400 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ballooning is finally enabled in kvm-75. You will need a 2.6.27+ host for ballooning to work properly. Changes from kvm-74: - add 1280x768 std-vga resolution - ballooning (Anthony Liguori) - requires 2.6.27+ host to work correctly - fix bad memory sizing on ia64 (Xiantao Zhang) - restore option roms to their original content on reset - fixes extboot failures after reset - enable ia64 power manangement (Xiantao Zhang) - add cld/std/cli/sti/clc instructions to testsuite (Mohammed Gamal) - fix compile errors on hosts that lack MADV_DONTFORK - avoid accessing CMOS NVRAM from ACPI AML (Gleb Natapov) - fixes rare reboot failures with Windows - fixes ACPI error messages in Windows event log - add mp state for ia64 (Xiantao Zhang) - add missing prototypes (Jes Sorensen) - fix compiler warnings (Jes Sorensen) - add in/out instructions to emulator (Mohammed Gamal) - use Windows pcr instead of guest's tr for tpr patching cpu id - fixes hibernate/resume with guest smp - account for realmode/npt/ept page faults in statistics - fix locking around dirty log tracking - flush tlbs after fetching the dirty log - fix random segfaults with npt (Joerg Roedel) - fix setting accessed bit on non-speculative sptes - fix tlb flush during page zap - slightly optimize event injection with npt - add MC5_MISC msr support (Joerg Roedel) - fixes Linux bootup warnings - make s390 facility bits future proof (Christian Borntraeger) - improve s390 guest Kconfig help (Christian Borntraeger) - add cld/std instructions to emulator (Mohammed Gamal) - fix address overflow in ept (Sheng Yang) - add statistic for guest irq injections - remove unnecessary remote tlb flush (Joerg Roedel) Notes: If you use the modules bundled with kvm-75, you can use any version of Linux from 2.6.16 upwards. You may also use kvm-75 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