Changelog
qemu (1:6.0+dfsg-1~ubuntu1) impish; urgency=medium
* Merge with Debian experimental, Among many other things this fixes LP Bugs:
(LP: #1907952) broken arrow keys in -display gtk on aarch64
- qemu-kvm to systemd unit
- d/qemu-kvm-init: script for QEMU KVM preparation modules, ksm,
hugepages and architecture specifics
- d/qemu-system-common.qemu-kvm.service: systemd unit to call
qemu-kvm-init
- d/qemu-system-common.install: install helper script
- d/qemu-system-common.qemu-kvm.default: defaults for
/etc/default/qemu-kvm
- d/rules: call dh_installinit and dh_installsystemd for qemu-kvm
- Distribution specific machine type
(LP: 1304107 1621042 1776189 1761372 1761372 1776189)
- d/p/ubuntu/define-ubuntu-machine-types.patch: define distro machine
types containing release versioned machine attributes
- d/qemu-system-x86.NEWS Info on fixed machine type defintions
for host-phys-bits=true
- Add an info about -hpb machine type in debian/qemu-system-x86.NEWS
- ubuntu-q35 alias added to auto-select the most recent q35 ubuntu type
- Enable nesting by default
- d/p/ubuntu/enable-svm-by-default.patch: Enable nested svm by default
in qemu64 on amd
[ No more strictly needed, but required for backward compatibility ]
- improved dependencies
- Make qemu-system-common depend on qemu-block-extra
- Make qemu-utils depend on qemu-block-extra
- Let qemu-utils recommend sharutils
- tolerate ipxe size change on migrations to >=18.04 (LP: 1713490)
- d/p/ubuntu/pre-bionic-256k-ipxe-efi-roms.patch: old machine types
reference 256k path
- d/control-in: depend on ipxe-qemu-256k-compat-efi-roms to be able to
handle incoming migrations from former releases.
- d/control-in: Disable capstone disassembler library support (universe)
- d/qemu-system-x86.README.Debian: add info about updated nesting changes
- d/control*, d/rules: disable xen by default, but provide universe
package qemu-system-x86-xen as alternative
[includes compat links changes of 5.0-5ubuntu4]
- Fix upgrade module handling (LP 1905377)
--enable-module-upgrades for qemu-xen which doesn't exist in Debian
* Dropped Changes [in 6.0]:
- d/p/ubuntu/lp-1907789-build-no-pie-is-no-functional-liker-flag.patch: fix
ld usage of -no-pie (LP 1907789)
- d/p/u/lp-1916230-hw-s390x-fix-build-for-virtio-9p-ccw.patch: fix
virtio-9p-ccw being missing (LP 1916230)
- d/p/u/lp-1916705-disas-Fix-build-with-glib2.0-2.67.3.patch: Fix FTFBS due
to glib2.0 >=2.67.3 (LP 1916705)
- d/p/u/lp-1921754*: add EPYC-Rome-v2 as v1 missed IBRS and thereby fails
on some HW/Guest combinations e.g. Windows 10 on Threadripper chips
(LP 1921754)
- d/p/u/lp-1921880*: add EPYC-Milan features and named cpu type support
(LP 1921880)
- d/p/u/lp-1922010-linux-user-s390x-Use-the-guest-pointer-for-the-sigre*:
fix go in qemu-s390x-static (LP 1922010)
* Dropped Changes [in Debian]:
- Allow qemu to load old modules post upgrade (LP 1847361)
- Drop d/qemu-block-extra.*.in, d/qemu-system-gui.*.in
- d/rules: Drop generating package version into maintainer scripts
* Dropped Changes [No more needed >21.04]:
- d/qemu-system-gui.prerm: add no-op prerm to overcome upgrade issues on
the bad old prerm (LP 1906245 1905377)
* Added Changes
- Disable fuse export (universe dependency)
- d/p/ubuntu/enable-svm-by-default.patch: update to match v6.0
- d/p/ubuntu/define-ubuntu-machine-types.patch: add ubuntu machine types
for v6.0
- d/p/ubuntu/lp-1929926-*: avoid segfaults by uretprobes (LP: #1929926)
- Ease the use of module retention on upgrades (LP: #1913421)
- d/run-qemu.mount, d/rules: provide run-qemu.mount in qemu-block-extra
- d/rules: only save modules if /run/qemu isn't noexec
- d/rules: clear all (current and former) modules on purge
- debian/qemu-block-extra.postinst: enable mount unit on install/upgrade
- d/control: qemu 6.0 broke libvirt <7.2 add a breaks to avoid partial
upgrade issues (LP: #1932264)
- Enable SDL as secondary UI backend (LP: #1256185)
- d/control: add build dependency libsdl2-dev
- d/control: enable sdl graphics on build
- d/qemu-system-gui.install: add ui-sdl.so
- d/control: add runtime dependency to libgl1
- d/rules: qemu-system-x86-xen builds modules as well now (follows the
other packages)
-- Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:41:33 +0200
