14 DAY TRIAL // QEMU, a generic open source emulator and virtualizer that can run OSes and programs made for a different machine, is now at version 2.1.0 RC3 and is getting much closer to a final release.
QEMU supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. The developers have made a huge number of improvements and changes in this release, and it looks like we might see a stable build soon.
According to the changelog, a missing VMState list terminator has been added, a human-readable error message for negative max-bytes parameter has been implemented, “tmpcpu” is now used instead of “cpu” in sub-looping, the migration with devices that use address_space_rw has been fixed, the underscores in the machine's property names have been replaced, a number of missing “static” attributes have been added, when a module is absent the application will no longer complain, and the error path for unknown incompatible features has been fixed.
A complete list of changes and updates can be found in the official announcement. You can download QEMU 2.1 RC3 right now from Softpedia.
Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.