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* [ANNOUNCE] kvm-82 release
@ 2008-12-25 10:11 Avi Kivity
  2008-12-25 14:59 ` Mark Bidewell
  2008-12-25 18:44 ` Farkas Levente
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Avi Kivity @ 2008-12-25 10:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: KVM list

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

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