ChangeLog/1.4

From QEMU

System emulation

Device emulation

Device assignment

USB

ARM

MIPS

S390

x86

  • testdev?

KVM

Xen

  • persistent grants support implemented in xen_disk (up to 450% speed in improvement with 15 guests!!);
  • safer and correcter flush operation (BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE) introduced in xen_disk;
  • multiple secondary PV consoles support in xen_console;
  • many bug fixes.

QMP

Network devices

SLIRP

Block devices

Live Migration

Move migration from a timer to a thread. Migration was blocking the iothread for too long. Latency of the other threads have improved, and measurements/throughput/latency of migration has also improved.

User-mode emulation

Guest agent

Host support