Changelog for kvm-debuginfo-0.12.3-1.2.x86_64.rpm :
Thu May 13 14:00:00 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com
- There are various issues in the multiwrite code paths for which
upstream patches already exist, including a bad memory leak.
This addresses bnc#603523. These patches are now included:
kvm-qemu-pre0.12.4-fix-multiwrite-error-code.patch
kvm-qemu-pre0.12.4-fix-multiwrite-error-handling.patch
kvm-qemu-pre0.12.4-fix-multiwrite-memory-leak.patch
kvm-qemu-pre0.12.4-free-iovec-array.patch

Mon May 10 14:00:00 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com
- Windows virtio iso filename clarification (bnc#603900)
- Document warning about using the default mac address (bnc#603179)
- Clarify pci passthrough support statement

Tue Apr 27 14:00:00 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com
- Fixed block io corruption bug where we weren\'t watching to not
exceed IOV_MAX. (bnc#586118, bnc#599012)

Mon Apr 26 14:00:00 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com
- Update windows virtio drivers to latest available (incl. Balloon)
- Included Windows XP and 2003 install fix for isa-pc case as well
(bnc#590683)
- Add -boot option for -drive parm to the doc. (bnc#594742)
- Improved formatting of kvm-supported.txt file

Tue Apr 20 14:00:00 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de
- Update S390 zipl loader - now works without guest modifications

Sat Apr 10 14:00:00 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com
- Proper fix for Windows XP and 2003 install problems (bnc#590683)
- gpxe compiles more cleanly
- report error if monitor change command fails

Wed Apr 7 14:00:00 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de
- Pull in patches that are waiting for 0.12.4 to be released
- Fixes overlapping rom regions (bnc#590425)
- Give warning instead of segfault with -smp > max (bnc#581712)
- Add S390 patches to make -nographic work properly and add
bootloader code
- Fix cmos patch to enable S390 building again

Fri Mar 26 13:00:00 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com
- in no-kvm mode, enforce RAM limit of 4095 MB (bnc#581738)
- fix floppy support using -global isa-fdc (bnc#591597)

Fri Mar 26 13:00:00 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com
- Windows XP and 2003 install again when using -device w/ide (bnc#590683)
- fix segfault when guest started with > 16 vcpus (bnc#581712)
- balloon info in monitor is erratic/incorrect (bnc#580841)
- removed --allow-unsupported-modules from modprobe (bnc#588214)
- updated kvm-supported.txt

Mon Mar 15 13:00:00 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com
- add file kvm-supported.txt to document supported features

Wed Mar 10 13:00:00 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com
- Update to 0.12.3, which includes these changes among others:
- segfault due to buffer overrun in usb-serial
- kvm: Fix eflags corruption in kvm mode
- don\'t dereference NULL after failed strdup
- better error handling in storage code
- virtio-net: fix network stall under load
- Fix hang in bios with multiple vcpus (bnc#586260)
- Cherry picked a few other useful upstream post 0.12.3 fixes

Fri Mar 5 13:00:00 2010 cooloAATTnovell.com
- do not put 11 chars in a direntry with only length of 8
(I hope upstream comes up with something better soon)

Mon Mar 1 13:00:00 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de
- Add Studio specific patches back again
- VNC password file
- VNC exit after n disconnects
- SLIRP disable outgoing connections

Mon Mar 1 13:00:00 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de
- Hotfix to get hotplug with virtio work again (bnc#583696)

Wed Feb 24 13:00:00 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de
- Get qemu-img-kvm back (really important for Studio!)

Fri Feb 19 13:00:00 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com
- Fix network booting (bnc#580947)
- Fix virtio network shutdown under load
- Fix buffer overrun
- Fix access after end of array
- Cleanup issues with net device integration
- Fix remaining extraneous stderr output on startup

Tue Feb 16 13:00:00 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de
- Implement long file names for tar (bnc#580100)

Wed Jan 20 13:00:00 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com
- Update to 0.12.2, including these changes among others:
- Update SeaBIOS to 0.5.1
- vnc: Fix artifacts in hextile decoding
- device assignment: default requires IOMMU
- pc: add machine type for 0.12
- Fix CPU topology initialization
- vmware_vga: Check cursor dimensions to avoid buffer overflow
- Remove deprecated windows drivers
- ability to build all objects from source now
- build debug package

Mon Jan 18 13:00:00 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de
- Make dzip not consume endless amounts of ram (bnc#569337)

Wed Jan 13 13:00:00 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de
- Make block-tar work for images > 8 GB (bnc#565600)

Tue Jan 5 13:00:00 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com
- update to 0.12.1.2 (FATE#306513)
Changes from qemu-kvm-0.11.x include:
- merge qemu 0.12.1
- many changes, including:
- s390 support
- live migration: support migration with non shared storage
- live migration: make save/restore data driven (VMState)
- monitor: introduce machine-protocol (QMP)
- qdev: convert many devices, support reading config from file
- pci: infrastructure to support 64-bit busses
- net: introduce -netdev to support point-to-point networking
- net: add support for GSO and checksum offload
- tons of bug fixes throughout the code base
- many kvm-specific bug fixes

Mon Dec 7 13:00:00 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de
- enable S390 target which is now upstream (FATE#306513)

Mon Dec 7 13:00:00 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de
- update to 0.12.0-rc0 (FATE#306513)
- detailed changes following on -rc1

Fri Dec 4 13:00:00 2009 brogersAATTsuse.de
- added latest windows virtio drivers to package
previous version of drivers is deprecated

Thu Nov 12 13:00:00 2009 brogersAATTsuse.de
- Fix package dependencies (bnc#554850)

Sat Nov 7 13:00:00 2009 brogersAATTsuse.de
- update package description

Mon Oct 19 14:00:00 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de
- fix incorrect search in /usr/share/qemu (#534850)

Mon Sep 28 14:00:00 2009 brogersAATTnovell.com
- update to 0.11.0
Changes from the qemu-kvm-0.10 series:
- merge qemu 0.11.0
- qdev device model
- qemu-io
- i386: multiboot support for -kernel
- gdbstub: vCont support
- i386: control over boot menu
- i386: pc-0.10 compatibility machine type
- qcow2: use cache=writethrough by default
- i386: MCE emulation
- i386: host cpuid support
- slirp: host network config
- virtio: MSI-x support
- pci: allow devices to specify bus address
- migration: allow down time based threshold
- virtio-net: filtering support
- http block device support
- i386: expose numa topology to guests
- native preadv/pwritev support
- kvm: guest debugging support
- vnc: support for acls and gssapi
- monitor: allow multiple monitors
- device assignment: MSI-X support (Sheng Yang)
- device assignment: SR/IOV support (Sheng Yang)
- irqfd support (Gregory Haskins)
- drop libkvm, use some of the upstream kvm support (Glauber Costa)
- device assignment: option ROM support (Alex Williamson)
- x2apic support (Gleb Natapov)
- kvm/msi integration (Michael S. Tsirkin)
- hpet/kvm integration (Beth Kon)
- mce/kvm ingration (Huang Ying)
- refresh patch series

Thu Sep 24 14:00:00 2009 brogersAATTnovell.com
- fix qemu-kvm crash due to buffer overrun (bnc#537387)

Wed Sep 9 14:00:00 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de
- Update to 0.11.0-rc2
- no changelog provided upstream, will hopefully follow for 0.11.0
- Include Mac OS X patches again
- Include dictzip patches (Studio related)
- Split KMP out, we\'ll take the kernel module as of now
- Version update in accordance with fate#306665

Thu Aug 6 14:00:00 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de
- Fix IA64 build

Wed Jul 29 14:00:00 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de
- update kvm-78 -> qemu-kvm-0.10.5
- \'info chardev\' monitor command
- automatic port allocation for vnc and similar
- improved cdrom media change handling
- scsi improvements
- e1000 vlan offload
- fix interrupt loss when injecting an nmi
- SPT optimizations
- x86 emulator improvements
- fix amd->intel migration
- enable virtio zero-copy (Mark McLoughlin)
- uuid support
- hpet support
- \'-drive serial=...\' option
- improved tsc handling (Marcelo Tosatti)
- guest S3 sleep (Gleb Natapov)
- \'-no-kvm-pit-reinjection\' option to improve timing on RHEL 3 era guests (Marcelo Tosatti)
- fix xen-on-kvm
- enable ac97 audio by default
- add virtio-console device
- fix rtc time drift on Windows (-rtc-td-hack option)
- vnc improvements
- fix kvmclock on hosts with unstable tsc (Gerd Hoffman)
- fix cygwin on Windows x64
- enable nested paging again

Mon May 25 14:00:00 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de
- make SLES9 kernel work with -kernel (#458258)
- add patches to get Xen running as guest

Sat Feb 21 13:00:00 2009 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Remove the dependency on kernel-source-rt and kernel-syms-rt:
those -rt packages will not ship in their current versions.

Mon Jan 26 13:00:00 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de
- add Windows 7 and Vista fix for userspace networking

Fri Jan 16 13:00:00 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de
- disable SLERT build for < 11.1
- backport virtio performance tweaks (bnc#466743)
- remove MSR debug message that clutters the log
- include kvm_stat tool to ease debugging

Tue Jan 13 13:00:00 2009 dgollubAATTsuse.de
- prepared for multi kernel variant build
- use kernel variant specific kernel source directory instead of
the symlinked kernel source directory
- added kernel-syms-rt to build requires to build SLERT KMPs

Wed Jan 7 13:00:00 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de
- update driver CD
- apply security bugfixes:
- slirp buffer overflow (CVE 2007-5729)
- VNC DoS (bnc#464142, CVE-2008-2382)
- VNC password guessing (bnc#464141, CVE-2008-5714)

Tue Dec 16 13:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- upstream backports:
- fix NMI injection issues (#458642)
- MMU speedups and fixes (#448114)
- fix bug in memory slot assignment
- makes our kmp work with current svn qemu
- fix buffer overflow in cirrus buffer (#448551)
- AltGr on VNC fix (#450148)
- add release to sysfs version (#450571)
- do not emulate CPUs if opening /dev/kvm failed (#458910)

Mon Dec 1 13:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- update OSX patch to work for kvm-78

Fri Nov 21 13:00:00 2008 brogersAATTnovell.com
- revert disk caching mode back to writeback for now.

Sat Nov 8 13:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- fix external buildservice compilation

Fri Nov 7 13:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- fix compilation for < 11.1

Thu Nov 6 13:00:00 2008 brogersAATTnovell.com
- make qemu-ifup script executable

Thu Nov 6 13:00:00 2008 brogersAATTnovell.com
- allow autoloading to handle our KMP unsupported status
- add a default qemu-ifup script for bridged configuration

Wed Nov 5 13:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- update to KVM 78
- fix nmi watchdog emulation (Jan Kiszka)
- merge qemu-svn
- new live migration implementation
- usb improvements
- migration fixes
- read UUID from qemu (Gleb Natapov)
- increase max cpu count to 255 for ia64 (Xiantao Zhang)
- fix some AMD->Intel live migration failures
- increase rmap preallocation (Marcelo Tosatti)
- fixes oops on mmu intensive smp workloads
- update e820 table for ept real mode identity map page (Sheng Yang)
- add autoloading of KVM modules
- do not block other VMMs when KVM is loaded

Thu Oct 23 14:00:00 2008 brogersAATTnovell.com
- misc cleanup and again address s390 build

Thu Oct 23 14:00:00 2008 brogersAATTnovell.com
- fix build failures in check-gcc-output

Fri Oct 17 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- update to KVM 77
- improved usb support
- vnc improvements
- pass uuid to guest
- scsi/virtio improvements
- improve debugging support
- improve >4GB memory support (Alex Williamson)
- fix ia64 boot with acpi enabled (Xiantao Zhang)
- fix ia64 with >= 3GB RAM (Xiantao Zhang)
- fix live migration
- kernel support for device assignment
(Allen Kay, Amit Shah, Weidong Han, Ben-Ami Yassour)
- improved NMI support (Jan Kiszka)
- add driver kit to /usr/share/qemu-kvm
- fix issues with our new 2.6.27 kernels
- set default RAM size to 384MB

Wed Oct 1 14:00:00 2008 rwAATTsuse.de
- reflect move to 64k page size on ia64 (bnc#429881)
- fix build for ia64

Mon Sep 22 14:00:00 2008 lnusselAATTsuse.de
- optionally build with vde support
- require gnutls to enable vnc tls support

Tue Sep 16 14:00:00 2008 brogersAATTnovell.com
- Fix build for ia64 and first attempt for s390
- bnc#353836: s390 source now GPLv2

Tue Sep 16 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- update to KVM 75
- ballooning (Anthony Liguori)
- requires 2.6.27+ host to work correctly
- fixes extboot failures after reset
- fixes rare reboot failures with Windows
- fixes ACPI error messages in Windows event log
- fixes hibernate/resume with guest smp
- fix random segfaults with npt (Joerg Roedel)
- enable building on 10.3 again

Thu Sep 4 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- update to KVM 74
- fix shadow ptes corruption on i386 hosts running smp guests
- improved usb support
- usb auto connect/disconnect
- add IA64 support
- spec file cleanup

Fri Aug 22 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- fix the PulseAudio disabling for older distributions

Thu Aug 21 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- update to KVM 73
- improve qcow2 performance with cache=off
- ide fixes
- external module compatibility with 2.6.27 hosts
- virtio-net speedup (Mark McLoughlin)
- support Windows hibernation on non-FlexPriority hosts
- full swapping support (Andrea Arcangeli)
- needs 2.6.27 hosts
- paravirt guest: query tsc frequency from host (Glauber Costa)
- fix debug register corruption on Intel hosts (Marcelo Tosatti)
- fix -no-kvm-irqchip

Wed Aug 20 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- fix the PulseAudio disabling for older distributions

Tue Aug 19 14:00:00 2008 brogersAATTnovell.com
- change kernel module install location from weak-updates to updates
as per email received from Peter Bowen (pzbAATTnovell.com).

Tue Aug 19 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
Temporary fixes for NPT breakage:
- Disabled nested paging by default
- When nested paging is enabled, make it slow but reliable

Wed Jul 30 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- update to KVM 72
- fixes suspend/resume of multiple nics
- adds Virtual Distributed Ethernet (vde) support
- avoid losing the iothread on random signals
- add \'info kvm\' monitor command (Anthony Liguori)
- avoid tpr patching when the stack is not valid (Marcelo Tosatti)
- fixes some variant of Windows 2003 SMP
- fix extboot stomping on reserved interrupt vectors (H. Peter Anvin)
- MMU improvements
- fix interrupt reinjection in real mode (Jan Kiszka)
- x86 hardware task switching fixes (Marcelo Tosatti)
- fix interrupts being delayed by instruction emulation
- improves Vista stability
- ignore no-op DEBUGCTL msr writes (Alexander Graf)
- fixes Netware
- fix running of 32-bit code in x86_64 SLES10SP2 (bnc#403189)
- make /usr/bin/qemu-kvm runnable as non kvm group member
- take out the vmi fix again, as that\'s fixed upstream

Tue Jul 22 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- disable PulseAudio for older distributions, so the
package still builds on < 11.0

Tue Jul 15 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- update to KVM 71
- virtio fixes
- adds pulseaudio driver
- fix lost interrupt when changing a device irq
- fix host msr corruption when host preempt is enabled
- fix kvmclock (Gerd Hoffmann, used in xenner)
- allow Linux 2.6.9 guests to boot
- fix booting guests compiled with gcc 4.3
- fix ioapic hang on heavy load (Mark McLoughlin)
- fix suspend/resume on AMD (Joerg Roedel)
- enable PulseAudio support

Wed Jul 9 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- add support for VMI-enabled kernels

Wed Jun 25 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- update to KVM 70
- improve virtio net performance (Anthony Liguori)
- fix corrupted breakpoints (Jerone Young)
- fix debugging (Jan Kiszka)
- add mtrr support
- merge qemu-svn
- remove dependency on gcc 3
- vnc client segfault fix
- fix vnc problems on resize
- enable tpr optimization for smp
- should drastically speed up Windows XP SMP guests
- fix false flooding when a pte points to a page table
- improves 2.4 pae guests with CONFIG_HIGHPTE
- enable NMI support on Intel (Sheng Yang)
- fix hypercall return value on AMD
- fixes running CONFIG_KVM_GUEST guests
- allow VMware Server to take over vmx when unloading the module (Eli Collins)
- fix crash on resume from suspend to ram (Andrea Arcangeli)
- emulator improvements
- Snow Leopard compatibility fixes
- reenable CPU emulation

Thu Jun 5 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- update to KVM 69
- update to latest Mac patches

Mon May 26 14:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- enable ALSA

Fri Mar 28 13:00:00 2008 cooloAATTsuse.de
- adding ncurses-devel to buildrequires

Fri Mar 7 13:00:00 2008 bkAATTsuse.de
- Update to kvm-63, adds curses interface. It still uses gcc for qemu\'s
CPU emulation which is broken with gcc4 -> disable it temporarily.

Mon Feb 25 13:00:00 2008 alexAATTsuse.de
- Fix cpuid patch

Thu Feb 21 13:00:00 2008 bkAATTsuse.de
- Add fixes from upstream and drop cpuidfake patch, fixes bnc#360671

Fri Feb 15 13:00:00 2008 bkAATTsuse.de
- Update to kvm-61, adds paravirtualized clock and dozens of fixes
- Fix cpuid asm or 64-bit guest support and fix core duo support
- Build the BIOS images from source and add ACPI entries for -M mac
- Build qemu with -O0 to work around real-mode emulation problems

Fri Feb 15 13:00:00 2008 agrafAATTsuse.de
- Include fix to make gfxboot work on Intel

Wed Feb 13 13:00:00 2008 anschneiderAATTsuse.de
- Add upstream patch to fix VMs that no longer boot

Thu Jan 24 13:00:00 2008 bkAATTsuse.de
- Update to kvm-60, add C2D cpuid level 4, use bios.mac for -M mac

Fri Jan 11 13:00:00 2008 bkAATTsuse.de
- Update to kvm-59, now works with gfxboot of recent openSUSE CDs!

Tue Aug 28 14:00:00 2007 bkAATTsuse.de
- based unpon version in opensue buildservice by dbahi/kraxel