From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-82 release Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:11:48 +0200 Message-ID: <49535C64.8000306@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]:55082 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751613AbYLYKLx (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:11:53 -0500 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 mBPABpmA020036 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:11:51 -0500 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This release adds support for nested virtualization, a feature which allows you to run kvm (and possibly other hypervisors) inside a guest. This is an experimental feature and is only available on AMD hosts. There are fixes included for a couple of minor vulnerabilities: one for the slirp stack (-net user), which is not usually used in production, and another in the vnc server, which allows malicious users to cause a VM to hang. Changes from kvm-81: - merge qemu-svn - uuid support - fix CVE-2007-5729 (slirp vulnerability) - fix CVE-2008-2382 (vnc denial of service) - better scsi support - pci subsystem id for pci devices - this will cause Windows guest to rediscover hardware - improved I/O parallelism - ppc kvm support - hpet support - not fully integrated yet - monitor 'info status' command - merge bochs-bios-cvs - uuid support - prepare for S3 sleep - merge vgabios-cvs - much improved guest debugging (Jan Kiszka) - both debugger in guest and debugger in host - fix kvm makefile for separate object dir (Andi Kleen) - nested svm (Alexander Graf) - run kvm in kvm in kvm... - fix ia64 register and stack access from userspace (Jes Sorensen) - don't treat a global pte as global if cr4.pge is clear - fixes Vista x86 smp failure on boot - properly lock virtual i8259 interrupt controller - fix large host pages invlpg/resync - fixes oops when using host hugetlbfs - fix vmload instruction misemulated as lidt Notes: If you use the modules bundled with kvm-82, you can use any version of Linux from 2.6.16 upwards. You may also use kvm-81 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.