From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-kmod-2.6.32-rc7 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:50:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4AFE8B7F.8000706@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm Return-path: Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:17720 "EHLO thoth.sbs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753421AbZKNKuf (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:50:35 -0500 Received: from mail3.siemens.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thoth.sbs.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id nAEAoeRd016416 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:50:40 +0100 Received: from [139.25.173.10] ([139.25.173.10]) by mail3.siemens.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id nAEAod4L017607 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:50:39 +0100 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Now that the KVM queue of pending patches for upcoming 2.6.32 is empty, it's time to release the first kvm-kmod based on this new kernel: This package contains the kvm external modules, using the sources from Linux 2.6.32-rc7. It can be used to update the kernel-side support of kvm without upgrading the host kernel. Download is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/kvm-kmod/2.6.32-rc7/kvm-kmod-2.6.32-rc7.tar.bz2/download Note that testing this "very close to stable" release also helps testing KVM support in 2.6.32. KVM changes since kvm-kmod-2.6.31.6: - irqfd: Guest interrupt injection via eventfd - ioeventfd: Trigger eventfd signel on guest PIO/MMIO access - Allow speaker emulation also with in-kernel PIT - VMX: Unrestricted Guest feature support (true hw-assisted real-mode) - x86 emulator: Add adc and sbb missing decoder flags - SVM: Fixes/improvements of nested virtualization - Implement MSRs used by Hyper-V - Ignore reads to perfctr msrs (fixes Kaspersky antivirus on Windows) - Introduce module parameter for ignoring unknown MSRs accesses - Switch tracing to ftrace infrastructure - Syscall/enter/exit emulation for cross-vendor migration - Add Directed EOI support to APIC emulation - Add x2APIC emulation - PIT support for HPET legacy mode - Fix performance of assigned devices with MSI/MSI-X - MMU: shadow support for 1gb pages - Several performance optimizations of the vmexit fastpath - Locking fixes for in-kernel IRQ/timer emulation - Countless small fixes kvm-kmod changes: - Fix depmod step in 'make install' - README file added Enjoy, Jan