Changelog for kvm-0.15.1-1.3.test.3.x86_64.rpm :

* Mon Nov 28 2011 brogersAATTsuse.com- add missing break. Plugs potential buffer overflow in CCID card passthru device (bnc#731086)
* Wed Oct 26 2011 brogersAATTsuse.com- Update to qemu-kvm v0.15.1 - see http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/0.15 for details- update to most recent ipxe upstream development sources
* Mon Oct 10 2011 brogersAATTsuse.com- Update seabios to v1.6.3- fix curl based disk access- fix termination by signal with -no-shutdown option set- dont set e1000 capabilities list bit
* Thu Sep 15 2011 brogersAATTsuse.com- take advantage of Transparent Huge Pages on host- include sgabios.bin
* Thu Aug 25 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- update to v0.15.0 for details, see: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/0.15- update to latest seabios (ahci is enabled there now)- fix failures migrating or saving large memory vms when remaining host memory is insuffienct (bnc#705095)- fix for creating 1MB vm
* Thu Aug 25 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- fix build: don\'t use deprecated functions
* Sun Jul 31 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- update to v0.15.0 rc1- update to latest ipxe and seabios upstream development sources- build seabios with ahci support enabled- add a BuildRequires for xfsprogs-devel so trim/discard is enabled for raw images.- add braile support- enable linux AIO- pulse audio is now first in list - making it the default interface
* Thu Jul 14 2011 agrafAATTsuse.de- fix RAM limit on s390x (bnc#689081)- automatically load kvm kernel module on s390x (bnc#691668)- make dzip big-endian safe (bnc#692217)- fix potential endless loop in dictzip (bnc#693592)- update s390 patches to fit with 0.15
* Fri Jul 08 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- validate virtqueue indirect descriptor against max size (bnc#701161)
* Wed Jul 06 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- fix possible out of bounds memory access (bnc#702823)
* Tue Jun 07 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- added creation of user/group qemu/qemu for use by libvirt (and potentially others) to avoid running as root
* Thu May 19 2011 andreaAATTopensuse.org- clean up buildrequires removing unsed vde libraries packages
* Wed May 18 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- update to version 0.14.1 includes patches we already carry, also the following fixes: qed consistency check use after free issue with drive_del device assignment issue emulated scsi adapter ABORT message handling applesmc REV key handling of vhostforce parameter to -net allow ISA IRQ sharing
* Tue May 17 2011 mhopfAATTnovell.com- Add libattr-devel to BuildRequires for OS11.3 and up (required for -virtfs).
* Sun May 15 2011 andreaAATTopensuse.org- enabled vde2 support
* Thu May 12 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- cleanup unused variable (for gcc4.6) and extra whitespace from block/dictzip.c- lots of other code cleanup related to gcc4.6 flagging variables which are set but not otherwise used. Some of these were taken from the ipxe project and applied to our gpxe code.
* Tue May 10 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- building for spice made conditional
* Wed May 04 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- Update seabios to version 0.6.2- put pulse audio first in sound interface list- various upstream post 0.14 fixes, including: abort on bad drive command-line parameters vnc crash upon too much output various vnc issues various virtio issues various e1000 issues performance regression multiwrite
* Mon Apr 11 2011 aevseevAATTgmail.com- build with spice support for newer suse versions on x86_64
* Mon Mar 21 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- re-enable Linux AIO for SLE11 build- let vhost-net support be determined by build environment- add sb16 and hda sound card support (hda is new as of 0.14)- e1000 fix (bnc#626654)- upstream fixes for device-asignment, pc-net, sd memory, vnc memory leak, vnc crash, potential deadlock
* Fri Feb 25 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- disable vnc threading due to memory leak (bnc#671809)
* Wed Feb 23 2011 bwiedemannAATTnovell.com- fix building with vde
* Tue Feb 22 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- update to version 0.14.0 See http://wiki.qemu.org/Changelog/0.14 for changes in 0.14 upstream qemu. Also includes kvm-specific enhancements.
* Mon Feb 21 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- update to latest pre 0.14.0 rc. (Includes the qemu 0.14.0 code as a basis)- more parallel makes
* Thu Feb 10 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- update to rc1 of qemu-kvm version 0.14.0- provide missing video bios files (bnc#669912)- fix issues with using i82559er emulated nic- be explicit about more configure options- enable vnc threading
* Sat Feb 05 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- update to rc0 of qemu-kvm version 0.14.0. A more complete list of changes will follow with the official release, but here are some highlights: - virtio improvements - ahci emulation - stable QMP interface - better spice support - block device resizing - huge nbd performance improvement - qed disk image format (new) - qcow2 performance and stability improvements - many bug fixes- update to version 0.6.1.2 of Seabios- fix buffer overrun in slirp
* Fri Jan 14 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- update gpxe roms to version 1.0.1- tweak braille support
* Fri Jan 14 2011 bwiedemannAATTnovell.com- add braille support
* Fri Jan 07 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- Fix mouse breakage (bnc#660870)
* Fri Jan 07 2011 brogersAATTnovell.com- [dictzip] fix images > 32bit (Alexander Graf) (bnc#654944)
* Tue Nov 30 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com- fix virtio-blk failure after reboot
* Mon Nov 01 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com- Update to stable release 0.13.0. Includes: - vhost-net: kernel-accelerating network backend for virtio devices - qmp: significant improvements covering most monitor commands - vnc: introduction of new encodings that dramatically improve bandwidth - ivshmem: new shared memory device allowing multiple guests to share a memory region - mips: introduction of fulong mini-pc - virtio-9p: introduction of a paravirtual file system passthrough mechanism - hpet: many enhancements - target-s390: support for s390 usermode emulation - QMP is still considered experimental in 0.13.0, but should be usable by libvirt- SeaBios updated to 0.6.1. Includes: - Support for virtio drives - Add ACPI definitions for cpu hotplug support - Support for a graphical bootsplash screen - USB mouse support - The PCI support for emulators is less dependent on i440 chipset
* Mon Oct 04 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com- Change default memory from 384MB to 512MB, which is in keeping with the default used by vm-install. This increased amount allows more guest configurations to be usable without specifying the memory. (bnc#640093)- Fix building gpxe when using latest make tool.
* Mon Sep 27 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com- Revert writeback cache change until we can resolve the issues discovered in bnc#637297
* Thu Jul 29 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com- Update to stable release 0.12.5, which includes numerous bug fixes. This and other recent changes address: bnc#598298, bnc#621793, bnc#619991, bnc#603179- Warn if default mac address is used- rtl8139 stops working after restore- Incompatibility with libvirt if disk caching specified in xml
* Mon Jul 19 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com- qemu-kvm was mistakenly being built without libaio support, which results in less efficient disk i/o (bnc#598271)
* Tue Jun 15 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com- Fix \"hang\" in bios seen with recent isolinux (bnc#603161)
* Tue Jun 01 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de- Fix multiboot (bnc#610682)
* Tue Jun 01 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de- Pull in some patches that are in the 0.12.5 stable queue. I only picked the ones that looked pretty serious (and affected us).
* Tue Jun 01 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de- Pull in some block speedup patches from me (bnc#599095). This also changes the default for block devices back to writeback, which should significantly speed up default block assignments.
* Thu May 13 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 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 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 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 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de- Update S390 zipl loader - now works without guest modifications
* Sat Apr 10 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 07 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 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 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 2010 brogersAATTnovell.com- add file kvm-supported.txt to document supported features
* Wed Mar 10 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 05 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 01 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de- Add Studio specific patches back again - VNC password file - VNC exit after n disconnects - SLIRP disable outgoing connections
* Mon Mar 01 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de- Hotfix to get hotplug with virtio work again (bnc#583696)
* Wed Feb 24 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de- Get qemu-img-kvm back (really important for Studio!)
* Fri Feb 19 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 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de- Implement long file names for tar (bnc#580100)
* Wed Jan 20 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 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de- Make dzip not consume endless amounts of ram (bnc#569337)
* Wed Jan 13 2010 agrafAATTsuse.de- Make block-tar work for images > 8 GB (bnc#565600)
* Tue Jan 05 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 07 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de- enable S390 target which is now upstream (FATE#306513)
* Mon Dec 07 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de- update to 0.12.0-rc0 (FATE#306513) - detailed changes following on -rc1
* Fri Dec 04 2009 brogersAATTsuse.de- added latest windows virtio drivers to package previous version of drivers is deprecated
* Thu Nov 12 2009 brogersAATTsuse.de- Fix package dependencies (bnc#554850)
* Sat Nov 07 2009 brogersAATTsuse.de- update package description
* Mon Oct 19 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de- fix incorrect search in /usr/share/qemu (#534850)
* Mon Sep 28 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 2009 brogersAATTnovell.com- fix qemu-kvm crash due to buffer overrun (bnc#537387)
* Wed Sep 09 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 06 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de- Fix IA64 build
* Wed Jul 29 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 2009 agrafAATTsuse.de- make SLES9 kernel work with -kernel (#458258)- add patches to get Xen running as guest