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Proxmox 1.6 Released: KVM userspace 0.12.5 and OpenVZ support

Today proxmox version 1.6 was released featuring tools from upstream qemu 0.12.5 and OpenVZ support.

SPICE 0.6.0 Released

Today saw the release of SPICE version 0.6.0. According to the announcement, this version comes with new features like offscreen surfaces and WAN mode.

Latest Windows Virtio Drivers

The latest build of the kvm virtio drivers are now available at fedoraproject.org. The drivers include virtio drivers for ballooning memory, virtioserial, network and viostor ( block drivers ).

kvm-kmod-2.6.35 Released

The latest release of the kvm kernel module based on linux kernel 2.6.35 is now available. This release comes with just a few bug fixes.

KVM Forum 2010 Presentations now available online, Videos coming soon

All the presentation slides for talks given at the recent KVM Forum 2010 conference held last week in Boston are now available at the official KVM wiki website.

SPICE client now available for Nokia N900 phone

If you own a Nokia n900 phone, there’s a SPICE client available as of yesterday. The announcement went out yesterday on the spice development mailing list.

qemu-kvm-0.12.5 released: bugfixes

Just a few hours ago, the latest version of qemu-kvm-0.12.5 was released based on the recent release of upstream qemu 0.12.5 a few days ago.

A guest file system browser based on libguestfs

There’s an experimental guest filesystem browser in alpha now available that you can use to inspect your kvm guest filesystems.

SPICE 0.5.2 Released

Yesterday saw the release of version 0.5.2 of the SPICE project. The network and PCI ids API are considered unstable with this release since the ABI is still not finalized.

Sheepdog block driver for distributed storage merged into upstream qemu

The sheepdog block driver for qemu has been merged into mainline qemu providing access to sheepdog’s distributed storage system.