Qemu 1.3 has been released and with it completes the merge of qemu-kvm into qemu. This means that you can now use “vanilla” qemu to run your kvm virtual machines. No more need to run the special version of qemu optimized for kvm. Many other features and enhancements also comes along with this release such as big improvements in USB3, live disk mirroring, support for glusterfs volumes and improved spice support for legacy vga mode.