Coming on the heels of the upstream release of qemu 0.12.4 comes the release of qemu-kvm version 0.12.4. Apart from the merged upstream changes, there are also some minor kvm specific changes. Below shows the changelog from the official announcement on the mailing list. The qemu-kvm releases are designed to be used with the kvm-kmod modules or your default kernel kvm module.

Changes from qemu-kvm-0.12.3

• fix error handling on vcpu creation error (Alex Graf)
• fix device assignment option rom scanning (Gerd Hoffmann)

Relevant upstream QEMU 0.12.4 changes:

• block: Free iovec arrays allocated by multiwrite_merge() (Stefan Hajnoczi)
• lsi: fix segfault in lsi_command_complete (Gerd Hoffmann)
• lsi: pass lsi_request to lsi_reselect (Gerd Hoffmann)
• lsi: move dma_len+dma_buf into lsi_request (Gerd Hoffmann)
• lsi: move current_dev into lsi_request (Gerd Hoffmann)
• lsi: have lsi_request for the whole life time of the request. (Gerd Hoffmann)
• lsi: use QTAILQ for lsi_queue (Gerd Hoffmann)
• Fix incoming migration with iothread (Marcelo Tosatti)
• Fix SIGFPE for vnc display of width/height = 1 (Chris Webb)
• net: remove broken net_set_boot_mask() boot device validation (Eduardo Habkost)
• qcow2: Remove request from in-flight list after error (Kevin Wolf)
• qcow2: Don't ignore immediate read/write failures (Kevin Wolf)
• block: Fix multiwrite memory leak in error case (Kevin Wolf)
• block: Fix error code in multiwrite for immediate failures (Kevin Wolf)
• block: Fix multiwrite error handling (Kevin Wolf)
• scsi-disk: fix buffer overflow (Gerd Hoffmann)
• qcow2: Rewrite alloc_refcount_block/grow_refcount_table (Kevin Wolf)
• qcow2: Factor next_refcount_table_size out (Kevin Wolf)
• block: avoid creating too large iovecs in multiwrite_merge (Christoph Hellwig)
• json-parser: Fix segfault on malformed input (Kevin Wolf)
• UHCI spurious interrut fix (Paul Brook)
• Fix corner case in chardev udp: parameter (Jan Kiszka)
• Don't set default monitor when there is a mux'ed one (Jan Kiszka)
• spelling typo (compatibilty) in hw/fw_cfg.c (Vagrant Cascadian)
• fdc: fix drive property handling. (Gerd Hoffmann)
• qemu-char.c: drop debug printfs from qemu_chr_parse_compat (Jan Kiszka)
• fix undefined shifts by >32 (Paolo Bonzini)
• Fix qemu -net user,hostfwd= example (Aurelien Jarno)

You can download this latest release at the following link.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/qemu-kvm/0.12.4/qemu-kvm-0.12.4.tar.gz/download