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KVM-82 Released: Nested Virtualization

The kvm maintainers gave the kvm community a Christmas gift this year by releasing kvm-82 on Christmas day featuring nested virtualization.

KVM-81 Released: Bug Fixes

Today kvm-80 was released featuring bug fixes. The notable bug fixes include those for display regressions and userspace/kernel compatibility with older kernel modules.

New VNC port allocation Feature

Beginning with kvm-80, there’s a new vnc port auto allocation feature using new socket helper functions.

KVM-80 Released: Qemu merge

Yesterday , kvm-80 was released featuring another qemu merge continuing to merge with the kvm support in upstream qemu.

New support for Bluetooth devices using –bt option

Beginning with kvm-79, there’s now support for Bluetooth devices that was included as part of the latest qemu merge.

KVM-79 Released: pci device assignment, pci device hot plug

Today, kvm-79 was released featuring full support for host pci device assignment and hot-plugging host pci devices.

KVM-78 Released: Bug Fixes, qemu merge

Yesterday kvm-78 was released featuring mostly bug fixes and a qemu merge. One major fix includes booting paravirt Linux kernels which was broken after kvm-77.

Multiplexing your monitor and serial port

There’s a feature in kvm which allows you to multiplex your serial and monitor port over a single connection.

KVM-77 Released: -std-vga deprecated, Improved disk performance

Yesterday kvm maintainers released kvm-77 which includes a fix for the –std-vga regression described here after the last release.

Convirt 0.9.5 Released: Adds drag and drop live migration for KVM

An alternative GUI management tool for KVM that was previously posted here just released version 0