Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.0-rc1

[Rick Vernam <rickv@hobi.com>]

On Monday 07 November 2011 15:58:24 Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of QEMU
> 1.0, release candidate 1.  This is the first release candidate for the 1.0
> release. This is not intended for production use but rather for testing.
> 
> To participate in the testing effort, please read the Testing Wiki[1] and
> sign up to test a subsystem.  Any problems should be reported on
> Launchpad[2] or qemu-devel.
> 
> If you've contributed to the 1.0 release, please take a moment and update
> the Changelog[3] so we can have a high quality change log for the release.
> 
> The full release schedule[4] is also available on the wiki.
> 
> http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.0-rc1.tar.gz
> 
> Known Issues:
> 
> 1) There is an issue resetting Linux guests that is still being
> investigated. Shutting down QEMU completely and restarting works around
> the issue.
> 
> Changelog since v1.0-rc0
> 
>   - console: Fix rendering of VGA underline (Markus Armbruster)
>   - qemu_timedate_diff() shouldn't modify its argument. (Gleb Natapov)
>   - reenable vm_clock when resuming all vcpus (Wen Congyang)
>   - qxl: fix vga port initialization. (Gerd Hoffmann)
>   - ac97: don't override the pci subsystem id (Gerd Hoffmann)
>   - pc: add 1.0 machine type (Gerd Hoffmann)
>   - disable automatic loading of sgabios when -nographic (Paolo Bonzini)
>   - add sgabios blob and submodule (Paolo Bonzini)
>   - xen-platform: Fix IO port read/write functions (Anthony PERARD)
>   - readline: Fix buffer overrun on re-add to history (Markus Armbruster)
>   - cmd: Fix potential memory leak (Pavel Borzenkov)
>   - cmd: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference (Pavel Borzenkov)
>   - cmd: Fix coding style in cmd.c (Pavel Borzenkov)
>   - arm_gic: handle banked enable bits for per-cpu interrupts (Rabin
> Vincent) - vvfat: reorganize computation of disk geometry (Paolo Bonzini)
> - vvfat: do not hardcode sector counts in error message (Paolo Bonzini) -
> vvfat: unify and correct computation of sector count (Paolo Bonzini) -
> vvfat: need to use first_sectors_number to distinguish fdd/hdd (Paolo
> Bonzini) - vvfat: do not fail if the disk has spare sectors (Paolo
> Bonzini) - vvfat: fix out of bounds array_get usage (Paolo Bonzini)
>   - block/cloop: Use g_free instead of free (Dong Xu Wang)
>   - block/cloop: Fix coding style (Dong Xu Wang)
>   - dma: Avoid reentrancy in DMA transfer handlers (Kevin Wolf)
>   - qemu-io: Fix multiwrite_f error handling (Kevin Wolf)
>   - qemu-io: Handle create_iovec errors (Kevin Wolf)
>   - Fix X86 CPU topology in KVM mode (Bharata B Rao)
>   - intel-hda: fix stream search (Gerd Hoffmann)
>   - virtio-blk: pass full status to the guest (Paolo Bonzini)
>   - hw/9pfs: use g_vasprintf() instead of rolling our own (Stefan Hajnoczi)
>   - xtensa_lx60: fix build date code and change memory region names (Max
> Filippov) - xtensa_lx60: pass kernel arguments from -append (Max Filippov)
> - xtensa_lx60: add FLASH support (Max Filippov)
>   - target-xtensa: raise an exception for invalid and reserved opcodes (Max
> Filippov)
>   - target-xtensa: handle cache options in the overlay tool (Max Filippov)
>   - target-xtensa: mask out undefined bits of WINDOWSTART SR (Max Filippov)
>   - tcg: Add tcg interpreter to configure / make (Stefan Weil)
>   - tcg: Add tci disassembler (Stefan Weil)
>   - tcg: Add interpreter for bytecode (Stefan Weil)
>   - tcg: Add bytecode generator for tcg interpreter (Stefan Weil)
>   - tcg: Make ARRAY_SIZE(tcg_op_defs) globally available (Stefan Weil)
>   - tcg: TCG targets may define tcg_qemu_tb_exec (Stefan Weil)
>   - memory: use 128-bit integers for sizes and intermediates (Avi Kivity)
>   - Add support for 128-bit arithmetic (Avi Kivity)
> 
> [1] http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.0/Testing
> [2] http://wiki.qemu.org/ReportABug
> [3] http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/Next
> [4] http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.0
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Liguori

Thanks.

Are there supporting windows binaries (ie, various virtio drivers and 
vdagent)?

Also, I've seen instructions to build the various windows binaries from source 
in a number of different places.  Is there an "official" site describing the 
method?

Thanks,
-Rick