Hi, On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 1.2 release!
http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.2.0.tar.bz2 Even though this was the shortest release cycle in QEMU's history, it contains an impressive 1400 changesets from 180 unique authors. See the ChangeLog on the wiki for a full changelog: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.2 Major features include: - The ability to pass fds for block devices enabling sVirt on NFS - arm: LPAE support for the Cortex-A15 CPU - arm: a new machine type: i.MX32 - A new dump-guest-memory command to produce ELF dumps of guests - pseries: support for PCI and IOMMU emulation - ppc: better support for device trees including a dumpdtb option - ppc: emulation of e5500 cores - prep: parallel port emulation - xen: support for PCI passthrough - kvm: MSI support for in-kernel APIC - vga: std-vga and QXL now support 16MB of VRAM - scsi: emulation of am53c974, dc390, and megasas controllers - usb: emulation of scsi controller - block: guest control of write-cache setting - block: default cache mode is now writeback - block: improved support for passthrough of SCSI tapes changers - achi: emulation of CD-ROM devices - block-stream: better support for sparse raw files - qcow2: lazy refcount mode for improved writethrough performance - qemu-img: check command can now repair qcow2/qed images - migration: support for large memory guests - migration: support for XBZRLE compression - vnc: threaded server enabled by default - qemu-ga: support for fstrim - openrisc emulation support - and much, much more... Deprecation announcements: - The 'cpudef' config file section will be removed in 1.3 - The -help output from QEMU will change in 1.3 I'd like to thank everyone who contributed to this release by submitting patches, testing out -rcs, or reporting bugs during the release process! Regards, Anthony Liguori
