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KVM-69 Release: Bug Fixes and Qemu-svn merge

Today, KVM maintainers released kvm-69 which mainly consisted of bug fixes. Also of note with this release is a merge with qemu-svn which now allows changing boot device from the qemu monitor. The official changelog is listed below:

Changes from kvm-68:
- fix kvm guest clock compile error without apic (Glauber Costa)
- support PIT mode 3 (Aurelien Jarno)
- needed by GNU Hurd
- fix host oops emulating smsw on AMD
- fake performance counter MSRs on AMD (Chris Lalancette)
- fixes RHEL 4 guests
- fix virtio compile error on s390 (Heiko Carstens)
- fix hlt emulation when PIT is running but not injecting interrupts
(Marcelo Tosatti)
- ditto for local apic (Marcelo Tosatti)
- fix kernel and userspace structure name clash on ia64 (Xiantao Zhang)
- fix GVMM module including non-PIC objects (Xiantao Zhang)
- 'make mrproper' fix (Andrew Morton)
- fix host oops on emergency reboot when hitting virt instructions
- simplify host cpu unplug
- fix kvm_vcpu_block() state race (Marcelo Tosatti)
- set iosapic pin count to 48 for ia64 (Xiantao Zhang)
- ppc: fix compile warning (Hollis Blanchard)
- ppc: fix lost simultaneous interrupts (Hollis Blanchard)
- ppc: log failed DCR accesses (Hollis Blanchard)
- ppc: order IRQ bit numbers as per docs (Hollis Blanchard)
- ppc: remove IRQ polarity code (Hollis Blanchard)
- ppc: remember state of level-triggered interrupts (Hollis Blanchard)
- ppc: emulate pci controller on 440 SoC (Hollis Blanchard)
- ppc: add pci controller to bamboo platform (Hollis Blanchard)
- external module compatibility updates
- merge qemu-svn
- fix CVE-2007-1320 - Cirrus LGD-54XX "bitblt" heap overflow
- allow boot device change from the monitor
- reduce spurious vga updates
- fix CVE-2008-2004 - format guessing vulnerability
- remove merge conflict leftover (Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon)

You can download KVM-69 here.

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