From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-84 release Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:46:27 +0200 Message-ID: <499765E3.70607@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]:51974 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753084AbZBOAqA (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:46:00 -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 n1F0k03j003855 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:46:00 -0500 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: A long list of changes due to an unusually late release. As is becoming usual, many of the changes come from upstream qemu; the kvm specific changes are mostly bugfixes, but also include infrastructure intended for message-signalled interrupts (MSI). kvm-84 is slower when rendering fonts on Windows than kvm-83; we are still investigating why. Changes from kvm-83: - merge qemu-svn - redirect slirp traffic to qemu-char device - slirp fixes - qcow2 fixes - nic link status control - enable ac97 audio by default - add virtio-console device - fix rtc time drift on Windows (-rtc-td-hack option) - add -vga none option for running headless guests - better block device error propagation - fix guests halting when switching desktop workspace - improved display interfaces - better logging support - don't corrupt qcow2 images when out disk space on host - dma api - add pci device vendor ID - vnc improvements - improve Virtual PC disk format support - scsi fixes - multicast filtering for e1000 and virtio-net - add libkvm wrapper for KVM_SET_CPUID2 interface (Amit Shah) - fix cpuid for leaves 4, 11, 13 (Amit Shah) - save ia64 nvam (Yang Zhang) - compile fixes (Mark McLaughlin, Jan Kiszka) - generic irq routing - build fixes against RHEL 5 hosts (Andrea Arcangeli) - fix build when pc-bios directory is empty (Eduardo Habkost) - improve host version check (Mark McLaughlin) - drop obsolete eflags conversion to/from qemu emulator (Jan Kiszka) - preallocate memory with -mem-path (John Cooper) - don't register unassigned PCI BARs (Gleb Natapov) - more hrtimer API compatibility - fix build on uniprocessor hosts (Jan Kiszka) - fix build on pre-msi hosts (Jan Kiszka) - allow stopping vm from vcpu thread (Gleb Natapov) - fix cpu and pci hotplug (Gleb Natapov) - ppc updates (Liu Yu) - fix ia64 fp trap handler (Yang Zhang) - fix ia64 vtlb handling (Xiantao Zhang) - enables Windows 2008 on ia64 - support translating ia64 PAL arguments (Xiantao Zhang) - implement ia64 PAL calls needed by Windows 2008 (Xiantao Zhang) - map assigned device mmio as uncachable (Sheng Yang) - fix lapic pending count calculation (Marcelo Tosatti) - fix s390 printk (Christian Borntraeger) - fix s390 problem state check (Christian Borntraeger) - fix s390 SIGP set prefix ioctl (Christian Borntraeger) - dynamic ia64 cpu count (Jes Sorensen) - fix lapic build on i386 (Clemens Noss) - make irq ack notifications use routing table (Marcelo Tosatti) - FFXSR support (Alexander Graf) - fix assigned device circular locking dependency (Mark McLaughlin) - drop unused code from string pio handlers (Jan Kiszka) - fix kvmclock on hosts with unstable tsc (Gerd Hoffman) - reenables Fedora 10 guests on those hosts - enable msi from userspace (Sheng Yang) - remove duplicated code in EPT handler (Sheng Yang) - flush volatile msrs on Intel before emulating rdmsr - fixes cygwin on Windows x64 Notes: If you use the modules bundled with kvm-84, you can use any version of Linux from 2.6.16 upwards. You may also use kvm-84 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.