Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-85 release

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi Avi,
>
> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 12:32 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>   
>> Again a long delayed release; I'll try to reduce the lag between
>> releases.
>>
>> kvm-85 comes in two flavors: the traditional kernel+qemu package 
>> (kvm-85.tar.gz), as well as separate qemu (qemu-kvm-devel-85.tar.gz) 
>>     
>
> I packaged this in Fedora 12 as qemu-0.10.50 and noticed a couple of
> small problems with the qemu-kvm-devel tarball:
>
>   - No kernel/include/asm symlink, so it was building with the system 
>     headers and not finding e.g. KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE
>   

This is already fixed in the new repository.

>   - An empty kvm-85 dir
>   

I need to rewrite my release script anyway.

> And for anyone else doing similar packaging, I've also:
>
>   - Disabled pwritev() support until glibc stops writing random junk. 
>     See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/497429
>
>   - Added Pauline's boot=on -help string patch
>
>   - Fixed the arm target build with the patch I just sent
>   

I hope to release kvm-86 soon.

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