Over the weekend the latest kvm kernel module was released based on the 2.6.32-rc7 kernel. The kvm-kmod provide the kernel module only and can be used to upgrade an older kernel with recent kvm kernel module features without having to upgrade your kernel. All you need to do is compile against your current kernel to include the latest kvm kernel features that your kernel can support. For more information on how you can use the git repository of the kvm-kmod to check out kernel trees see the following link.
http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/new-git-repository-kvm-kmod

Below is the changelog since the kvm-kmod 2.6.31-6 kvm-kmod release.
KVM changes since kvm-kmod-2.6.31.6:
- irqfd: Guest interrupt injection via eventfd
- ioeventfd: Trigger eventfd signel on guest PIO/MMIO access
- Allow speaker emulation also with in-kernel PIT
- VMX: Unrestricted Guest feature support (true hw-assisted real-mode)
- x86 emulator: Add adc and sbb missing decoder flags
- SVM: Fixes/improvements of nested virtualization
- Implement MSRs used by Hyper-V
- Ignore reads to perfctr msrs (fixes Kaspersky antivirus on Windows)
- Introduce module parameter for ignoring unknown MSRs accesses
- Switch tracing to ftrace infrastructure
- Syscall/enter/exit emulation for cross-vendor migration
- Add Directed EOI support to APIC emulation
- Add x2APIC emulation
- PIT support for HPET legacy mode
- Fix performance of assigned devices with MSI/MSI-X
- MMU: shadow support for 1gb pages
- Several performance optimizations of the vmexit fastpath
- Locking fixes for in-kernel IRQ/timer emulation
- Countless small fixes
kvm-kmod changes:
- Fix depmod step in 'make install'
- README file added
You can download this latest release at the following link
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/kvm-kmod/2.6.32-rc7/kvm-kmod-2.6.32-rc7.tar.bz2/download
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