[ANNOUNCE] kvm-66 release
Avi Kivity
only provided in the git tree, not in the tarball. Windows and Linux
guests are supported.
On good old x86, we have a the new kvmtrace performance monitoring
framework together with a sizable number of bug fixes.
Changes from kvm-65:
- adjust external module for 2.6.25 module locations (Anthony Liguori)
- fix userspace compilation failure without kernel pit (Joerg Roedel)
- kvmtrace performance monitoring mechanism (Eric Liu)
- stop all vcpus before saving their state (Marcelo Tosatti)
- fixes smp live migration
- save/restore kernel apicbase (Marcelo Tosatti)
- block SIG_IPI signals (Marcelo Tosatti)
- smsw mem16, lmsw mem16 emulation and unit tests
- fix compile warnings (Jerone Young)
- fix reset with iothread
- ia64 architecture support (Xiantao Zhang, Anthony Xu)
- don't assume guest pages are backed by a 'struct page' (Anthony Liguori)
- needed for pci device assignment
- register kvm's ioctl range
- fix hardware task switching buglet (Izik Eidus)
- fix mce handling on AMD (Joerg Roedel)
- do hardware task switching in hardware when NPT is enabled (Joerg Roedel)
- fix timer race waking up a halted vcpu with smp (Marcelo Tosatti)
- fix irq race leading to irqs delivery delays (Marcelo Tosatti)
- fix triple fault handling on AMD
- fix lea instruction emulation
Notes:
If you use the modules bundled with kvm-66, 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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