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=== Incompatible changes ===
=== Incompatible changes ===
* The ARM 'virt' board now has a second PCI MMIO region of 512G size. It is useful for large devices like ivshmem and video cards. However, old Linux kernel builds with LPAE disabled are incapable to handle such controller. In this case, older guests will stop working. In order to keep those guests running, it is possible to disable this region by adding "highmem=off" machine option.


=== Future incompatible changes ===
=== Future incompatible changes ===

Revision as of 14:58, 4 September 2015

System emulation

Incompatible changes

  • The ARM 'virt' board now has a second PCI MMIO region of 512G size. It is useful for large devices like ivshmem and video cards. However, old Linux kernel builds with LPAE disabled are incapable to handle such controller. In this case, older guests will stop working. In order to keep those guests running, it is possible to disable this region by adding "highmem=off" machine option.

Future incompatible changes

Alpha

ARM

KVM

MIPS

PowerPC

s390

SH

SPARC

x86

KVM

Xen

Device emulation and assignment

ACPI

Audio

Block devices

Character devices

IDE

Mouse/keyboard

Network

SCSI

PCI/PCIe

TPM

VFIO

virtio

VGA

Character devices

GUI

Monitor

Migration

Network

Block devices in system emulation

Command-line options

TCG

Block devices and tools

Audio

Guest agent

User-mode emulation

Build dependencies

Known issues