QEMU 1.6 released

[Posted August 16, 2013 by corbet]

Version 1.6 of the QEMU hardware emulator is available. New features include live migration over RDMA, a new 64-bit ARM TCG target, support for Mac OS X guests, and more; see the changelog for details.

QEMU 1.6 released

Posted Aug 16, 2013 18:19 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] (2 responses)

Oh, it's that new? Just today went looking for the QEMU (after a while of not using it, but I suddenly found I need a MIPS emulator), and got the 1.6.0 tarball. Some hints for anyone else building it on RHEL5: You need an updated Python (QEMU has some Python code that uses syntax not in 2.4.3 that RHEL comes with, I installed 2.7.5 from source), and I had to disable some features in configure step that I fortunately do not need (./configure --disable-smartcard-nss --disable-user), because related code caused compilation errors. Again probably because of the oldness of RHEL5.

QEMU 1.6 released

Posted Aug 16, 2013 18:53 UTC (Fri) by jensend (guest, #1385) [Link] (1 responses)

The software in a given version of RHEL isn't exactly bleeding edge when that version is first released, and RHEL 5 was released six and a half years ago. So, yes, using newly-released software with RHEL5 may require some upgrades.

QEMU 1.6 released

Posted Aug 16, 2013 19:43 UTC (Fri) by aliguori (subscriber, #30636) [Link]

We've more or less given up on supporting RHEL5 as a host. RHEL6 causes enough backport pain as it is :-)

QEMU 1.6 released

Posted Aug 16, 2013 18:57 UTC (Fri) by bgmarete (guest, #47484) [Link] (2 responses)

Has all that is needed by KVM now been merged into the Qemu repo?

QEMU 1.6 released

Posted Aug 16, 2013 19:43 UTC (Fri) by aliguori (subscriber, #30636) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, the qemu-kvm fork was retired over a year ago.

QEMU 1.6 released

Posted Aug 19, 2013 17:08 UTC (Mon) by bgmarete (guest, #47484) [Link]

Thanks for your work on this remarkable project and for your reply.

QEMU 1.6 released

Posted Aug 16, 2013 19:54 UTC (Fri) by yann.morin.1998 (guest, #54333) [Link] (2 responses)

I never ceased to be amazed by QEMU. If I had to vote, it's one of the most important packages to me.

Keep up the good work! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

QEMU 1.6 released

Posted Aug 19, 2013 17:13 UTC (Mon) by bgmarete (guest, #47484) [Link] (1 responses)

I agree. Another project of great importance is FFmpeg, providing, as it does, decoders for every audio/video format known to man (more or less). Fabrice Bellard started that one too. I think that we've got a great deal for which to thank him. Quite a bit of my business depends on services around Qemu and FFmpeg.

OT: Bellard awesomeness (was QEMU 1.6 released)

Posted Aug 19, 2013 19:24 UTC (Mon) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Yes, Fabrice Bellard is amazing. Check out two of his other projects:

A PC emulator in JavaScript
A C compiler that can compile and then boot Linux.

QEMU 1.6 released

Posted Aug 17, 2013 20:33 UTC (Sat) by geofft (subscriber, #59789) [Link] (2 responses)

> support for Mac OS X guests

Looks like this is support for PPC Mac OS X guests, specifically. I recall that running Intel Mac OS X has worked for quite a while, although I haven't tried it myself.

QEMU 1.6 released

Posted Aug 18, 2013 16:00 UTC (Sun) by somlo (subscriber, #92421) [Link] (1 responses)

> I recall that running Intel Mac OS X has worked for quite a while

There are a few remaining issues to be straightened out before that could be supported upstream:

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/

The writeup itself is still a work in progress :)

QEMU 1.6 released

Posted Aug 18, 2013 16:45 UTC (Sun) by geofft (subscriber, #59789) [Link]

Cool! I wonder if I had seen that page before -- I vaguely remembered the bit about the SMC keys needing to be passed on the command line, but not really the rest of it.

Anyway, bookmarked :)