From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57281) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNqYU-0002WR-Q2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:37:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNqYS-0001V7-Tr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:37:54 -0500 Received: from hobi.com ([161.58.203.140]:45624) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNqYS-0001Uj-Pp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:37:52 -0500 From: Rick Vernam Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 11:42:14 -0600 References: <4EB85480.1020205@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4EB85480.1020205@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201111081142.14663.rickv@hobi.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.0-rc1 Reply-To: rickv@hobi.com List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Anthony Liguori 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