From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-82 release Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:44:54 +0100 Message-ID: <4953D4A6.8020907@lfarkas.org> References: <49535C64.8000306@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: KVM list Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:55864 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751918AbYLYSo6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:44:58 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so1285367fgg.17 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:44:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <49535C64.8000306@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Avi Kivity wrote: > 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. on centos-5, kernel/include-compat/asm/msr-index.h gives dozens of such warnings during compile: In file included from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/include/asm/kvm_host.h:65, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/include/linux/kvm_host.h:67, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/x86/lapic.c:60: /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/include-compat/asm/msr-index.h:304:1: warning: "MSR_P4_U2L_ESCR0" redefined In file included from include/asm/processor.h:16, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/include/asm/kvm_para.h:89, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/include/linux/kvm_para.h:63, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/x86/../external-module-compat-comm.h:14, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/x86/external-module-compat.h:9, from :1: include/asm/msr.h:407:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/include/asm/kvm_host.h:65, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/include/linux/kvm_host.h:67, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/x86/lapic.c:60: /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/include-compat/asm/msr-index.h:305:1: warning: "MSR_P4_U2L_ESCR1" redefined In file included from include/asm/processor.h:16, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/include/asm/kvm_para.h:89, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/include/linux/kvm_para.h:63, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/x86/../external-module-compat-comm.h:14, from /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-82/_kmod_build_/kernel/x86/external-module-compat.h:9, -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"