[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.6.0 is now available

[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.6.0 is now available

[Anthony Liguori]

Hi,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
the QEMU 1.6.0 release.  This release consists 1,600+ commmits from
129 authors.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.6.0.tar.bz2

The full list of changes are available at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.6

Highlights include:

 * Support for live migration over RDMA
 * TCG target for aarch64.
 * Support for auto-convergence in live migration ("CPU stunning") 
 * The XHCI (USB 3.0) controller supports live migration. 
 * New device "nvme" provides a PCI device that implements the NVMe
   standard.
 * ACPI hotplug of devices behind a PCI bridge is supported
 * The 32-bit ARMv8 LDA/STL instructions for load-acquire/store-release
   are supported
 * Experimental support for virtio-mmio for vexpress-a9 and vexpress-a15 boards
 * Mac OS X guests supported (10.2-10.4 for PPC, 10.4 for PPC64)
 * pSeries guests support live migration and savevm. 
 * BSDs now support the GTK+ user interface.
 * Support for the pc machine type in Xen
 * Support for TUN/TAP on Mac OS X
 * And lots more...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori