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QEMU 2.7.0 Open-Source Hypervisor Adds Support for Xen Paravirtualized USB, More

Release highlights of QEMU 2.7.0 include support for Xen paravirtualized USB, multiqueue support for virtio-blk devices, live migration support for virtio-gpu 2D displays, busy-polling support for virtio-net and vhost-net devices, as well as VFIO passthrough support for Intel integrated GPUs (Graphics Processing Units). Moreover, there’s a new management interface to improve CPU (Central Processing Unit) hot plug and unplug, performance improvements to the TCG emulation, making it up to 20% faster, user-mode networking support for RDNSS, DNS6, DHCPv6, and link-local DNS addresses, and support for creating user-mode emulation docker images.

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