From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-77 release Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:02:10 +0200 Message-ID: <48F1E742.7080902@redhat.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 mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:51040 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751899AbYJLMCO (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:02:14 -0400 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9CC2DeH030338 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:02:13 -0400 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This release fixes the -std-vga regression which bothered those of us who have large or widescreen monitors (note the option is now named '-vga std' due to upstream qemu changes). Other significant changes include better disk performance if you have a fast host storage subsystem. Changes from kvm-76: - merge bochs-bios-cvs - merge qemu-svn - more -cpu options - faster disk emulation (esp. with scsi/virtio) - improved NMI support (Jan Kiszka) - improve >4GB memory support (Alex Williamson) - memory alias cleanups (Glauber Costa) - fix kvmtrace segfault (Ryota OZAKI) - make external module compile on split source/object configs (Alexander Graf) - allows compiling on opensuse - fix -std-vga regression - fix migration failure at end of migration protocol - map mmio pages for device assignment (Weidong Han) - silence lapic kernel messages (Jan Kiszka) - fix vcpu reset (Gleb Natapov) - fix missed invlpg on EPT-enabled machines with EPT disabled (Marcelo Tosatti) - device assignment on ia64 (Xiantao Zhang) - memory type support on EPT (Sheng Yang) Notes: If you use the modules bundled with kvm-77, you can use any version of Linux from 2.6.16 upwards. You may also use kvm-77 userspace with the kvm modules provided by Linux 2.6.25 or above. Some features may only be available in newer releases. http://kvm.qumranet.com -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.