Hello, On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 2.0.0 release. This is one of our most extensive releases ever, with 2,500+ commmits from 179 authors.
http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.0.0.tar.bz2 The full list of changes are available at: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.0 Highlights include: * Initial support for KVM on AArch64 systems (some features such as migration are not yet implemented) * Support for all 64-bit mode ARMV8 user-accessible instructions except for the optional CRC and crypto extensions * Support for new 32-bit mode ARMv8 instructions in TCG * Support for the allwinner-a10-based board "-M cubieboard" * Support for POWER Altivec 2.07 and VSX instructions when running under TCG * Support for boot order in pSeries emulation * The Q35 x86 machine-type now supports CPU hotplug. * On the PIIX x86 machine-type, PCI hotplug now supports devices behind a bridge (for bridges not added by hotplug; hot-plugged bridges can still use the PCI Standard Hot-Plug Controller) * Support for the Hyper-V reference time counter via the "hv-time" suboption of "-cpu". This can improve performance of Windows guests substantially for applications that do many floating-point or SIMD operations. (Requires KVM and Linux 3.14). * ACPI tables generated by QEMU can now be used by OVMF (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEFI/OVMF) firmware. OVMF starting with SVN r15420 is needed. In particular hotplug, pvpanic device and other ACPI based features now work for OVMF * PCI passthrough of devices with a ROM now work on Xen * support for suspend-to-RAM in the XHCI USB controller * GTK UI is now supported on Windows hosts * New management interfaces for CPU and virtio-rng hotplug * Improved reliability for live migration when using qcow2 images * Live snapshot merging * Experimental support in virtio-blk for M:N threading model: if you specify x-dataplane=on, you can also create I/O threads with "-object iothread" and point virtio-blk devices to the desired iothread with the "x-iothread" property. Properties of the running iothreads can be queried with the QMP command "query-iothreads". * Network block drivers (curl, iscsi, rbd, ssh, glusterfs) can be built as shared library modules with "--enable-modules" configure option. * QEMU is now able to operate even if the underlying storage requires the buffer size to be a 4K multiple. This is the case for 4K-native disks (with cache=none or when accessed through iscsi:// URLs) and some raw devices * QEMU can access NFSv3 shares directly from userspace using libnfs. * Improvements to the TCG optimizer make it produce faster code * Tracing QEMU via LTTng 2.x is now supported * And lots more... Thank you to everyone involved! Sincerely, Michael Roth
