kvm-57 release
The major focus for this release is a qemu-cvs merge, which brings many
new features, some introduced by kvm developers. Examples are
improved usb support and the new -drive qemu option.
While we've tested this carefully, this is a big merge so please handle this release with care and report any problems.
Changes from kvm-56:
- warn when emulating preempt notifiers
- add pio port 0x80 access test to testsuite
- merge qemu-cvs
- add rtc emulation for ia64 (Xiantao Zhang)
- fix qemu memory allocation off-by-one
- new kernel source layout (virt/kvm/, arch/x86/kvm/)
- coalesce remote tlb flushes when write-protecting guest pages (Eddie Dong)
- lapic debug compile fix (Joerg Roedel)
- fix smp mmu shadow instatiation race (Marcelo Tosatti)
- atomic cmpxchg8b on i386 (Marcelo Tosatti)
- throttle vmx_intr_assist() printk (Ryan Harper)
- portability (Xiantao Zhang)
Notes:
If you use the modules bundled with kvm-57, you can use any version
of Linux from 2.6.17 upwards.
If you use the modules bundled with Linux 2.6.20, you need to use
kvm-12.
If you use the modules bundled with Linux 2.6.21, you need to use
kvm-17.
Modules from Linux 2.6.22 and up will work with any kvm version from
kvm-22. Some features may only be available in newer releases.
For best performance, use Linux 2.6.23-rc2 or later as the host.
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Quoted 2 lines · Avi Kivity
The major focus for this release is a qemu-cvs merge, which brings many new features, some introduced by kvm developers.
but didn't include my changes to the IDE emulation to allow for OpenSolaris guests to be installed (patch 1 and 4) as shown in :
will rebase them (they conflict with the qemu's gcc4 compilation fixes) and resend them.
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Notes:
If you use the modules bundled with kvm-57, you can use any version
of Linux from 2.6.17 upwards.
just realized I made a typo in my original report for backward compatibility but you got it right :)
2.6.17 will only work if compiled with CONFIG_SMP=y but shouldn't affect any distribution that provides kvm packages AFAIK (Gentoo will be affected, but the packages provided there are not official)
Carlo
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Quoted 6 lines · Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
Quoted 3 lines · Avi Kivity
The major focus for this release is a qemu-cvs merge, which brings many new features, some introduced by kvm developers.
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but didn't include my changes to the IDE emulation to allow for OpenSolaris guests to be installed (patch 1 and 4) as shown in :
will rebase them (they conflict with the qemu's gcc4 compilation fixes) and resend them.
Thanks. Will apply.
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Notes:
If you use the modules bundled with kvm-57, you can use any version
of Linux from 2.6.17 upwards.just realized I made a typo in my original report for backward compatibility but you got it right :)
It was accidental, I assure you :)
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