On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 2.3.0 release. This release contains 1900+ commits from 184 authors.
http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.3.0.tar.bz2 The full list of changes are available at: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.3 Highlights include: * Support for 32-bit KVM guests on 64-bit ARM hosts * Support for running KVM under valgrind * New IvyBridge CPU model for x86 guests * Xen: support for ioreq-server API * New 5KEc and 5KEf MIPS64r2, and M14K and M14Kc MIPS32r2 microMIPS CPU models for MIPS guests * Basic support for transactional memory extentions in PowerPC guests * Improved VGA support for little-endian PPC/pSeries guests * PCI bus support for s390x guests * Support for automatic guest device unplug when passthrough devices are unbound from VFIO host driver * Improved UI performance/support for GTK+/VNC/SDL/Spice, and VNC support for multiseat * Performance improvements for virtio-blk emulation: asynchronous SCSI request handling, and disk read merging. * QEMU Guest Agent: now also supports file operations in Windows guests, can be used to enable/disable memory blocks in linux guests in support for memory hotplug. * Migration can now include a JSON description of migration stream to aid in identifying incompatibilities betweens guests/hosts. * And lots more... Thank you to everyone involved! Sincerely, Michael Roth
