QEMU 2.1.0 is out now!

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 2.1.0 release. This release contains 2200+ commits from 180 authors.

http://ift.tt/1tHmZQL

The full list of changes are available at:

http://ift.tt/1pOc4y5

Highlights include:

• Support for memory hotplug on x86 guests


• Support for pinning memory on host NUMA nodes on x86 guests


• Basic hot-plug/hot-unplug support for x86 guests using Q35 machine-type


• Support for TCG-based system emulation on AArch64 (in addition KVM-based virtualization)


• AArch64 SHA and Crypto instruction support.


• Support for VFIO-based device passthrough on pSeries/PowerKVM guests


• Migration support for virtio-ccw on s390x guests


• Improved IOMMU emulation for SPARC guests


• Full support for USB3 passthrough (including streams).


• Multi-seat support for GTK+ and SDL 2.0 UIs, and lots of bug fixes.


• Dedicated threading model for virtio-blk, virtio-blk dataplane, now supports almost all features of the block layer including: image formats, POSIX AIO, I/O throttling, statistics and error recovery


• Fixes migration from QEMU 1.7 when certain bridge/CPU combinations are in use (see changelog for notes on migration incompatibilities between 2.0 and 2.1 for certain guest configuations), and new code/tools to detect migration issues


• And lots more...

Thank you to everyone involved!

Sincerely,

Michael Roth

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