[fedora-virt] Fwd: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.2.0 is now available

[Cole Robinson]

Now in rawhide and f21 virt-preview

- Cole

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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