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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/emulators/qemu
From: Kamil Rytarowski
Date: 2017-12-14 03:03:53
Message id: 20171214020353.4621FFB40@cvs.NetBSD.org
Log Message:
qemu: Upgrade to 2.11.0
pkgsrc changes
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Remove merged patches, mostly for SmartOS. There are more to go and there
is a call for volunteers to step in as a maintainer and help to upstream the
remaining ones.
SmartOS as host support is scheduled to be removed in the next major version
of qemu.
upstream changes
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The full list of changes are available at:
https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.11
Highlights include:
* Improved support for running Hyper-V on top of KVM
* New hotpluggable PCIe-to-PCI bridge device with SHPC support
* Experimental GPUDirect support for Nvidia passthrough devices (p2p DMA)
* Better performance using integrated LUKS support for block devices
* Added a qemu-block-drivers man page
* TPM emulation support
* Ability to hotplug a watchdog device and specify watchdog actions at
runtime
* UI: improved client support for VNC via websockets
* UI: better keymap support for SDL/GTK/Cocoa front-ends and various input
devices
* ARM: support for Smartfusion2 board
* ARM: improved performance for PCI passthrough devices using INTx
* ARM: improved XEN support for AArch64 guests
* OpenRISC: experimental support for SMP
* PowerPC: fixes for Mac machine types
* PowerPC: pseries: support for virtual SMT modes in guests
* s390: support for virtio-input-ccw and virtio-gpu-ccw
* s390: support for CPU hotplug via newer device_add interface
* s390: experimental support for multiple vcpu threads under full emulation
* SPARC: sun4u: support for sunhme (Happy Meal Ethernet) NIC
* SPARC: sun4u: use of Simba PCI bridges to better match Ultra 5 PCI
topology
* and lots more...
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