From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKBZV-0001NM-FZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:06:45 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKBZQ-0001Hc-CU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:06:44 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42319 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKBZQ-0001HP-6c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:06:40 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:46574) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NKBZP-0008CB-Vs for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:06:40 -0500 Received: from d01relay07.pok.ibm.com (d01relay07.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.147]) by e2.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id nBEDvxwQ028332 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:57:59 -0500 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay07.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id nBEE6NH71032426 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:06:23 -0500 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id nBEE6Mji017729 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:06:22 -0500 Message-ID: <4B264659.80201@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:06:17 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE][Call-For-Testing] Release 0.12.0-rc1 of QEMU List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" The QEMU team is pleased to announce the availability of the 0.12.0-rc2 release. This is the second release candidate for the 0.12.0 release. This release is not intended for production use. Testing release candidates is a great way to contribute to QEMU and improve the quality of the 0.12.0 release. The current plan is to release 0.12.0 on Friday, Dec 18th. Depending on the severity of bug fixes we get between now and then, we may do another release candidate in the middle of the week. For this release candidate, we would appreciate as much testing and feedback as possible, particularly the following features which have seen a lot of activity since the 0.11.0 release: - live migration; especially with non-x86 and complex machine configurations - block device migration - exotic x86 guests that may interact with the BIOS in special ways - PXE booting - SCSI disk support - any tools that depend on parsing monitor output It can be downloaded from Savannah at: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/qemu/qemu-0.12.0-rc2.tar.gz Please send testing feedback (positive or negative) to qemu-devel and file bugs against the release candidate at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu A detailed change log since 0.12.0-rc1 is included below. On behalf of the QEMU team, I'd like to thank everyone who contributed to make this release happen! version 0.12.0-rc2: - v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa) - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino) - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann) - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann) - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann) - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann) - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd Hoffmann) - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman) - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann) - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann) - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann) - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties. (Gerd H offmann) - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka) - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster) - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov) - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin) - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie) - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori) - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook) - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin) - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus Armbruster) - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster) - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus Armbruster) - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino) - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino) - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin) - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin) - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin) - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin) - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin) - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara) - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka) - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno) -- Regards, Anthony Liguori