A QEMU csapat nevében Michael Roth bejelentette a QEMU 2.8-as kiadását. A kiadás 201 szerző több mint 1900 commit-jét tartalmazza. Főbb újdonságok:
- Support for fault-tolerant guests via COLO (COarse-grained LOck-stepping)
- Support for fast host/guest socket communication over virtio via AF_VSOCK
- Support for compressed formats when generating live backups
- Support for new virtio-crypto device
- Improved display rendering when using SPICE GUI in OpenGL mode
- ACPI support for NVDIMM device hotplug
- ARM: 'virt' machine support for ITS when using ACPI
- ARM: Aspeed board improvements
- ARM: STM32F2xx board (Netduino 2) support for ADC and SPI devices
- MIPS: support for 24KEc CPUs
- PPC: support for POWER9 CPUs and powernv platform
- PPC: pseries support for more the 1TiB of guest memory and memory unplug
- PPC: pseries support PCI host bridge NUMA affinities
- s390: support for CPU models and virtio-ccw revision 2
- x86: support for Extended Interrupt Mode in emulated IOMMUs
- x86: support for up to 288 CPUs on q35 machine type
- Xen: unplug support for SCSI disks and xenlinux-compatible devices
- and lots more...
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