Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-83 release

[John Wong <johnw@wonghome.net>]

Hi, i installed kvm-83 on xubuntu-amd64/kernel-2.6.7-11.
i notice some problem with -net downscript.
my kvm start up script like this:
qemu-system-x86_64 ... ... -net 
tap,ifname=tap0,script=/path/kvm-ifup,downscript=/path/kvm-ifdown
when the guest shutdown, kvm pass all argument to downscript.

the command like this (kvm-83):
/path/kvm-ifdown "tap0,script=/path/kvm-ifup,downscript=/path/kvm-ifdown"

kvm-82 only pass tap0 to downscript like this:
/path/kvm-ifdown "tap0"

and i notice both kvm82/kvm83 not installed modules to 
/lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/{kvm-amd,kvm-intel,kvm}.ko
it only rename the old modules to {kvm,kvm-intel,kvm-amd}.ko.org.

please help, thank you.


On 2009年01月13日 21:53, Avi Kivity wrote:
> The biggest change this time around is support for the AMD IOMMU for 
> device assignment.  As it requires extensive core kernel support, it 
> is only available on Linux 2.6.29rc1 or higher hosts.
>
> Changes from kvm-82:
> - amd iommu support (with Linux 2.6.29+ hosts) (Joerg Roedel)
> - merge qemu-svn
>   - qcow2 correctness fixes
>   - '-drive serial=...' option
>   - virtio-net migration fixes
> - fix '--with-patched-kernel' build on Ubuntu (Nolan Leake)
> - improved tsc handling (Marcelo Tosatti)
>   - should reduce timing errors on older Linux guests
> - remove cpuid code duplication due to upstream qemu work (Amit Shah)
> - guest S3 sleep (Gleb Natapov)
> - load assigned devices option rom (Kechao Liu)
> - '-no-kvm-pit-reinjection' option to improve timing on RHEL 3 era guests
>   (Marcelo Tosatti)
> - remove duplicate firmware config interface probe in bios (Sebastian 
> Herbszt)
> - backward compatibility for marker_synchronize_register() (Eduardo 
> Habkost)
> - fix compile warning in tpr patching (Mark McLoughlin)
> - don't install kvm headers to /usr/local
> - fix smbios memory size in certain cases (Bill Rieske)
> - simplify mmu shadow walking function
> - stop using vmap() on guest pages (annoys ksm) (Izik Eidus)
> - fix warning on MSR_VM_HSAVE_PA in dmesg
> - fix i8254 timer count read (Marcelo Tosatti)
> - ppc e500 core support (Hollis Blanchard)
> - fix vmx real mode guest state validity checks
> - make pop instruction emulation a little more generic
> - implement 'ret far' instruction emulation
> - properly lock i8354 timer
> - remove ppc debug support (Hollis Blanchard)
> - fix race freeing assigned device interrupt (Sheng Yang)
> - fix pci interrupt in freeing in device assignment (Sheng Yang)
> - allow disabling msi for assigned devices (Sheng Yang)
> - emulate amd microcode level msr (Alexander Graf)
>   - helps esx boot on kvm
> - make page unshadowing a little faster
> - clear pending pit interrupts when unmasking the timer irq
>   - fixes xen-on-kvm
> - mmu notifiers release method (Marcelo Tosatti)
>   - fixes large pages support
> - expose ia64 registers to userspace (Jes Sorensen)
> - fix type in has_svm() (Joe Perches)
> - drop unnecessary memory clearing when allocating shadow page
>   (Marcelo Tosatti)
> - rename "metaphysical" page attribute to "direct"
> - fix irq routing with -no-kernel-irqchip
>
>
> Notes:
>     If you use the modules bundled with kvm-83, you can use any version
> of Linux from 2.6.16 upwards.  You may also use kvm-83 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
>