From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60679) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXaTJ-0001MY-Nl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:28:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXaTD-00061I-Gr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:28:49 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f173.google.com ([209.85.210.173]:61818) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXaTD-00061E-4S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:28:43 -0500 Received: by iakk32 with SMTP id k32so10066356iak.4 for ; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:28:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EDCE327.5010608@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:28:39 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <118a2ba2-6cb0-4039-841d-e4e9ffe5b27f@zmail15.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <118a2ba2-6cb0-4039-841d-e4e9ffe5b27f@zmail15.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.0 release List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alex Jia Cc: Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel On 12/05/2011 09:06 AM, Alex Jia wrote: > Hi Anthony, > It seems the following link is unavailable now: > http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.0.tar.gz The VM is crashing pretty often. We're working on a migration plan that will resolve this problem. I'll post dates once I can confirm them. The link should be working again by the time you get this message. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Regards, > Alex > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anthony Liguori" > To: "qemu-devel" > Sent: Friday, December 2, 2011 5:23:37 AM > Subject: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.0 release > > Hi, > > On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of > QEMU 1.0! > > Over 8 years ago, Fabrice Bellard started QEMU as a small tool to run x86 Linux > binaries on non-x86 Linux platforms. QEMU has since evolved into a cross > architecture full system simulator capable of simulating 14 different target > architectures across a wide variety of host platforms. QEMU can simulate over > 400 different hardware devices in dozens of different boards. > > QEMU also forms the heart of multiple hardware virtualization platforms > including Xen and KVM. > > Over those 8 years, we have seen almost 20,000 changesets from close to 400 > unique authors. I'd like to personally thank everyone who has contributed to > making this release and all of our previous releases a success! > > In this release, we have seen many improvements. For the a full summary of > changes, see the ChangeLog below. You can download 1.0 from qemu.org at: > > http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.0.tar.gz > > ChangeLog: > > == General == > * i386-softmmu is no longer named ''qemu'' but instead referred to as > ''qemu-system-i386'' for better consistency with other targets. A new tool is > likely to be introduced that uses the ''qemu'' name so distributions are advised > to not undo this change. > * QEMU now uses a separate thread for VCPU execution. This merges the biggest > difference between the qemu-kvm tree and upstream QEMU. > * A new memory dispatch API has been added internally. A new monitor command > "info mtree" can show the hierarchy of memory regions in the guest. > * QEMU now has a build dependency on glib and makes extensive use of glib. > * QEMU now can run on more hosts. Hosts without a native code generator can use > the TCG interpreter (TCI). See [[Features/TCI]] for more information. > > == Block devices (disks) == > * QEMU now supports I/O latency accounting in the monitor command "info blockstats". > * Errors are now tracked per device and are shown by the monitor command "info > block". > * All image formats now support asynchronous operation. IDE and SCSI emulation > will use this feature, while other devices (notably floppy and SD) will not. > > === IDE/ATAPI === > * A large number of bugs were fixed regarding CD media change and tray locking. > > === SCSI === > * Memory management errors could crash QEMU when scsi-disk encountered I/O > errors. Many instances of this problem were fixed. > * The accuracy of error handling for SCSI emulation has been greatly improved. > * SCSI devices can now be addressed by channel, target (id) and LUN. Not all > emulated HBAs will support this feature (in particular, the LSI controller will > not). > * Block device pass through is now supported through a new scsi-block device. > The scsi-block device works with block devices (like /dev/sda or /dev/sr0) > rather than /dev/sgN devices, and is more efficient because it does not consume > arbitrary amounts of memory when the guest does large data transfers. > * SCSI CD-ROMs now report media changed events. > * SCSI CD-ROMs now support DVD images. > * Bugfixes for IDE media change also apply to SCSI. > * SCSI devices now report a unit attention condition when the system is started > or reset. This may cause problems with old firmware versions. > > === VDI === > * Now supports discarded blocks in dynamically-sized images. > > == User-mode networking (SLIRP) == > * SLIRP can process ARP replies and gratuitous ARP requests from the guest. > > == ARM == > * QEMU now supports the new Cortex-A15 instructions in linux-user mode (via > "-cpu any"): VFPv4 fused multiply-accumulate (VFMA, VFMS, VFNMA, VFNMS) and also > integer division (UDIV, SDIV). > * The vexpress-a9, versatileab, versatilepb and realview-* boards now have audio > support. > * QEMU is known not to work on ARM hosts in this release. (ARM target emulation > is fine.) > > === pSeries === > * sPAPR VIO devices can now be created with -device. > > == Xtensa == > * QEMU now supports DC232b and FSF xtensa CPU cores. > * QEMU now supports sim (similar to Tensilica ISS) and LX60/LX110/LX200 machines. > > == Migration == > * QEMU now supports live migration using image files like QCOW2 on shared storage > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > > >