On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 2.2.0 release. This release contains 1700+ commits from 171 authors.
http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.2.0.tar.bz2 The full list of changes are available at: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.2 Highlights include: * Dedicated dataplane thread for virtio-blk now supports disk resizing, hot-unplug, QEMU's built-in NBD support, and disk management features like live backup, mirroring, copy/streaming, and snapshot merging. * Experimental dedicated dataplane thread support for virtio-scsi disk controllers * Support for hotplugging USB controllers * Improved live-migration for guests using KVM paravirt clocksource * Support for direct booting of guest kernel images using Xen * Support for IOMMU (VT-d) emulation on Q35 x86 guests * TCG emulation support for breakpoints/watchpoints on ARM guests * TCG emulation support for PSCI firmware interface, allowing clean shutdown of fully emulated ARM guests * Emulation support for MIPS64 Release 6 architecture * Emulation support for MIPS SIMD architecture * Emulation support for Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4 guests * Emulation support for TriCore architecture * TCG emulation optimizations for PowerPC guests * Improved guest kernel debugger support for pSeries guests * And lots more... Thank you to everyone involved! Sincerely, Michael Roth
