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1 | This file documents changes for QEMU releases 0.12 and earlier. |
2 | For changelog information for later releases, see | |
85938981 | 3 | http://wiki.qemu-project.org/ChangeLog or look at the git history for |
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4 | more detailed information. |
5 | ||
6 | ||
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7 | version 0.12.0: |
8 | ||
9 | - Update to SeaBIOS 0.5.0 | |
10 | - e1000: fix device link status in Linux (Anthony Liguori) | |
11 | - monitor: fix QMP for balloon command (Luiz Capitulino) | |
12 | - QMP: Return an empty dict by default (Luiz Capitulino) | |
13 | - QMP: Only handle converted commands (Luiz Capitulino) | |
14 | - pci: support PCI based option rom loading (Gerd Hoffman/Anthony Liguori) | |
15 | - Fix backcompat for hotplug of SCSI controllers (Daniel P. Berrange) | |
16 | - fdc: fix migration from 0.11 (Juan Quintela) | |
17 | - vmware-vga: fix segv on cursor resize. (Dave Airlie) | |
18 | - vmware-vga: various fixes (Dave Airlie/Anthony Liguori) | |
19 | - qdev: improve property error reporting. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
20 | - fix vga names in default_list (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
21 | - usb-host: check mon before using it. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
22 | - usb-net: use qdev for -usbdevice (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
23 | - monitor: Catch printing to non-existent monitor (Luiz Capitulino) | |
24 | - Avoid permanently disabled QEMU monitor when UNIX migration fails (Daniel P. Berrange) | |
25 | - Fix loading of ELF multiboot kernels (Kevin Wolf) | |
26 | - qemu-io: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf) | |
27 | - Fix thinko in linuxboot.S (Paolo Bonzini) | |
28 | - target-i386: Fix evaluation of DR7 register (Jan Kiszka) | |
29 | - vnc: hextile: do not generate ForegroundSpecified and SubrectsColoured tiles (Anthony Liguori) | |
30 | - S390: Bail out without KVM (Alexander Graf) | |
31 | - S390: Don't tell guest we're updating config space (Alexander Graf) | |
32 | - target-s390: Fail on unknown instructions (Alexander Graf) | |
33 | - osdep: Fix runtime failure on older Linux kernels (Andre Przywara) | |
34 | - Fix a make -j race (Juergen Lock) | |
35 | - target-alpha: Fix generic ctz64. (Richard Henderson) | |
36 | - s390: Fix buggy assignment (Stefan Weil) | |
37 | - target-mips: fix user-mode emulation startup (Nathan Froyd) | |
38 | - target-i386: Update CPUID feature set for TCG (Andre Przywara) | |
39 | - s390: fix build on 32 bit host (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
40 | ||
41 | version 0.12.0-rc2: | |
42 | ||
43 | - v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa) | |
44 | - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino) | |
45 | - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
46 | - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
47 | - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
48 | - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
49 | - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
50 | - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman) | |
51 | - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
52 | - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
53 | - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
54 | - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
55 | - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka) | |
56 | - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster) | |
57 | - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov) | |
58 | - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
59 | - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie) | |
60 | - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori) | |
61 | - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook) | |
62 | - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
63 | - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus Armbruster) | |
64 | - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster) | |
65 | - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus Armbruster) | |
66 | - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino) | |
67 | - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino) | |
68 | - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
69 | - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
70 | - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
71 | - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
72 | - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
73 | - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara) | |
74 | - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka) | |
75 | - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno) | |
76 | ||
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77 | version 0.10.2: |
78 | ||
79 | - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori) | |
80 | - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa) | |
e7d81004 | 81 | - live migration: improve error propagation (Glauber Costa) |
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82 | - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright) |
83 | - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost) | |
84 | - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake) | |
85 | - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell) | |
86 | - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno) | |
87 | - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka) | |
88 | - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost) | |
89 | - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau) | |
90 | - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber) | |
91 | - fix VGA regression (malc) | |
92 | ||
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93 | version 0.10.1: |
94 | ||
95 | - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson) | |
96 | - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug) | |
97 | (Marcelo Tosatti) | |
98 | - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info). This series of changes added | |
99 | a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori) | |
100 | - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno) | |
101 | - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori) | |
102 | - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request. When using TCG and a dynticks | |
103 | host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite | |
104 | loop (Aurelien Jarno) | |
105 | - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka) | |
106 | - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka) | |
107 | - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka) | |
108 | - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka) | |
109 | - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka) | |
110 | - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka) | |
111 | - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel) | |
112 | - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation | |
113 | (Ryan Harper) | |
114 | ||
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115 | version 0.10.0: |
116 | ||
117 | - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x) | |
118 | - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support | |
119 | - BSD userspace emulation | |
120 | - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support | |
121 | - GDB XML register description support | |
122 | - Intel e1000 emulation | |
123 | - HPET emulation | |
124 | - VirtIO paravirtual device support | |
125 | - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation | |
126 | - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation | |
127 | - PCI hotplug support | |
128 | - Live migration and new save/restore formats | |
129 | - Curses display support | |
130 | - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats | |
131 | - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS) | |
132 | - Multiple VNC clients are now supported | |
133 | - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC | |
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134 | - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau) |
135 | - Braille support (Samuel Thibault) | |
136 | - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka) | |
c30bb264 | 137 | - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski) |
0e674589 | 138 | - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve) |
139 | - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz) | |
b4171e4b | 140 | - Many, many, bug fixes and new features |
57cd6e97 | 141 | |
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142 | version 0.9.1: |
143 | ||
430415f2 | 144 | - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu) |
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145 | - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong) |
146 | - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel) | |
54d43f70 | 147 | - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau) |
33d68b5f | 148 | - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau) |
115646b6 | 149 | - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif) |
5a5012ec | 150 | - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer) |
02645926 | 151 | - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski) |
b65df015 | 152 | - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook) |
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153 | - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm) |
154 | - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer) | |
155 | - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer) | |
6ada7453 | 156 | - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi) |
239fbd86 | 157 | - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf) |
981623fe | 158 | - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias) |
cb33da57 | 159 | - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl) |
a76dc35a | 160 | - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer) |
93a0019b | 161 | - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh) |
02645926 | 162 | - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski) |
9ee6e8bb | 163 | - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery) |
d66846a1 | 164 | - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell) |
6d1f1778 | 165 | - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster) |
d66846a1 | 166 | - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski) |
ad0504b5 | 167 | |
7b9c30c5 | 168 | version 0.9.0: |
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169 | |
170 | - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images | |
171 | - Async file I/O API | |
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172 | - New qcow2 disk image format |
173 | - Support of multiple VM snapshots | |
f0e42172 | 174 | - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support |
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175 | - SMM support |
176 | - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS | |
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177 | - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer) |
178 | - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil) | |
284ec167 | 179 | - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont) |
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180 | - m68k user support (Paul Brook) |
181 | - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes | |
182 | - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori) | |
183 | - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori) | |
184 | - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori) | |
83f64091 | 185 | |
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186 | version 0.8.2: |
187 | ||
856860f5 | 188 | - ACPI support |
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189 | - PC VGA BIOS fixes |
190 | - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl) | |
191 | - VNC server fixes | |
192 | - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger) | |
9529ebc2 | 193 | - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil) |
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194 | - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel) |
195 | - USB updates (Paul Brook) | |
63301264 | 196 | - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel) |
beac80cd | 197 | - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio) |
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198 | - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko) |
199 | - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis) | |
200 | - Support for variable frequency host CPUs | |
201 | - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts | |
202 | - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
203 | - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc) | |
a08beb33 | 204 | |
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205 | version 0.8.1: |
206 | ||
207 | - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori) | |
208 | - win32 host serial support (Kazu) | |
fd06c375 | 209 | - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke) |
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210 | - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe) |
211 | - SSE3 support | |
9529ebc2 | 212 | - Solaris port (Juergen Keil) |
27c7ca7e | 213 | - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu) |
24236869 | 214 | - VNC server (Anthony Liguori) |
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215 | - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.) |
216 | - USB fixes | |
217 | - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook) | |
210fe0be | 218 | |
90dc3b39 | 219 | version 0.8.0: |
1d14ffa9 | 220 | |
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221 | - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s |
222 | cpu (Paul Brook) | |
223 | - SMP support | |
1d14ffa9 | 224 | - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg) |
6f5f11a5 | 225 | - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg) |
1d14ffa9 | 226 | - DirectSound driver (malc) |
d5d11eac | 227 | - ALSA audio driver (malc) |
6f5f11a5 | 228 | - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc) |
1d14ffa9 | 229 | - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc) |
bb36d470 | 230 | - Initial USB support |
f8d179e3 | 231 | - Linux host serial port access |
e57a8c0e | 232 | - Linux host low level parallel port access |
41d03949 | 233 | - New network emulation code supporting VLANs. |
ea31eb5b | 234 | - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation |
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235 | - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz) |
236 | - NX bit support | |
ba3c64fb | 237 | - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl) |
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238 | - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support |
239 | (Johannes Schindelin) | |
f8d179e3 | 240 | |
a7c15abb | 241 | version 0.7.2: |
3b46e624 | 242 | |
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243 | - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit) |
244 | - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism. | |
245 | - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle) | |
246 | - better user net performances | |
247 | ||
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248 | version 0.7.1: |
249 | ||
250 | - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin) | |
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251 | - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir |
252 | N. Oleynik) | |
8979b227 | 253 | - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara) |
3475187d | 254 | - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl) |
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255 | - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer) |
256 | - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle) | |
33d08439 | 257 | - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne) |
a7c15abb | 258 | - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara) |
de167e41 | 259 | |
a8753c34 | 260 | version 0.7.0: |
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261 | |
262 | - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection | |
263 | - user mode networking bug fix | |
264 | - undocumented FPU ops support | |
a07167d3 | 265 | - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes |
6a78ece5 | 266 | - 'pidfile' option |
585d0ed9 | 267 | - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin) |
3d11d0eb | 268 | - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin) |
808c4954 | 269 | - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek) |
bdfaf503 | 270 | - added generic 64 bit target support |
a8753c34 | 271 | - x86_64 target support |
bdfaf503 | 272 | - initial APIC support |
664e0f19 | 273 | - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support |
6508fe59 | 274 | - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere) |
99c475ab | 275 | - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl) |
a8753c34 | 276 | - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl) |
99c475ab | 277 | - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook) |
b7bcbe95 | 278 | - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook) |
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279 | - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook) |
280 | - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook) | |
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281 | - Samba 3 support |
282 | - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont) | |
a8753c34 | 283 | - generic FPU emulation code |
6a0f9e82 | 284 | - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi) |
bed5cd80 | 285 | |
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286 | version 0.6.1: |
287 | ||
288 | - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont) | |
289 | - Virtual console support | |
05d5818c | 290 | - Better monitor line edition |
5fafdf24 | 291 | - New block device layer |
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292 | - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and |
293 | transparent decompression | |
294 | - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested) | |
295 | - Support for up to 4 serial ports | |
c7f74643 | 296 | - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm) |
9bf05444 | 297 | - Port redirection support in user mode networking |
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298 | - Support for not executable data sections |
299 | - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin) | |
300 | - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve | |
301 | Wormley) | |
525d67bc FB |
302 | - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any |
303 | LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2) | |
304 | - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone) | |
e95c8d51 | 305 | - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl) |
2518bd0d | 306 | - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows. |
d63d307f | 307 | - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options |
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308 | - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin) |
309 | - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to | |
310 | the virtual consoles. | |
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311 | - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert) |
312 | - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell) | |
313 | - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell) | |
d75d9f6b | 314 | - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc) |
61a8c4ec | 315 | - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi) |
c76338c3 FB |
316 | - VGA font change fix |
317 | - VGA read-only CRTC register fix | |
49b3b9fb | 318 | |
d08c49aa | 319 | version 0.6.0: |
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320 | |
321 | - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix) | |
322 | - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot) | |
f528bfd4 FB |
323 | - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto) |
324 | - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere) | |
325 | - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell) | |
326 | - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix) | |
327 | - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix) | |
328 | - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix | |
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329 | - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images |
330 | - PCI support | |
331 | - NE2K PCI support | |
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332 | - dummy VGA PCI support |
333 | - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell) | |
b54ad049 | 334 | - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI) |
15aeac38 | 335 | - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug) |
be3edd95 | 336 | - added '-localtime' option |
7e71f16f | 337 | - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu)) |
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338 | - APM and system shutdown support |
339 | - Fixed system reset | |
70867490 | 340 | - Support for other PC BIOSes |
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341 | - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation |
342 | - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
d08c49aa | 343 | - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86) |
7e71f16f | 344 | - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB |
44c513c4 | 345 | |
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346 | version 0.5.5: |
347 | ||
348 | - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc) | |
349 | - VGA support on PowerPC PREP | |
350 | - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci) | |
a1b74fe8 | 351 | - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug) |
66201e2d | 352 | - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug) |
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353 | - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht) |
354 | - FDC fixes for Win98 | |
b06eddd3 | 355 | |
2f0c934e | 356 | version 0.5.4: |
3b46e624 | 357 | |
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358 | - qemu-fast fixes |
359 | - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell) | |
360 | - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell) | |
361 | - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers) | |
362 | - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell) | |
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363 | - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer) |
364 | - User mode network stack | |
365 | - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI) | |
52c00a5f | 366 | - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug) |
2f0c934e | 367 | |
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368 | version 0.5.3: |
369 | ||
6411cfb6 | 370 | - added Bochs VESA VBE support |
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371 | - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix) |
372 | - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe) | |
373 | - CPU interrupt fixes | |
374 | - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install) | |
22a46c55 | 375 | - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install) |
94fe4f9f | 376 | - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster) |
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377 | - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht) |
378 | - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance | |
379 | in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast) | |
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380 | - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras) |
381 | - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation | |
382 | - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix) | |
383 | - graphical x86 linux loader | |
5fafdf24 | 384 | - command line monitor |
94fe4f9f FB |
385 | - generic removable device support |
386 | - support of CD-ROM change | |
387 | - multiple network interface support | |
bc51c5c9 | 388 | - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne) |
e7d81004 | 389 | - lret to outer privilege fix (OS/2 install fix) |
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390 | - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot) |
391 | - VM save/restore commands | |
392 | - new timer API | |
393 | - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates) | |
67b915a5 | 394 | - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu) |
bb27c190 | 395 | |
efe160c5 | 396 | version 0.5.2: |
2be3bc02 | 397 | |
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398 | - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing) |
399 | - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when | |
400 | switching tasks | |
401 | - improved qemu-fast speed | |
402 | - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in | |
403 | softmmu mode). | |
404 | - fixed IO checking | |
405 | - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD) | |
406 | - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix) | |
407 | - added ROM memory support (win98 boot) | |
408 | - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception | |
409 | - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically | |
410 | when launching executables for the supported target CPUs. | |
728c9fd5 FB |
411 | - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer) |
412 | - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
413 | - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
2be3bc02 FB |
414 | - fixed PTE dirty bit handling |
415 | - fixed xadd same reg bug | |
416 | - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness | |
3d4b4c0f FB |
417 | - access to virtual memory in gdb stub |
418 | - task gate and NT flag fixes | |
e98c8721 | 419 | - eflags optimisation fix for string operations |
efe160c5 | 420 | |
9c3ad574 | 421 | version 0.5.1: |
3b46e624 | 422 | |
9c3ad574 FB |
423 | - float access fixes when using soft mmu |
424 | - PC emulation support on PowerPC | |
425 | - A20 support | |
181f1558 FB |
426 | - IDE CD-ROM emulation |
427 | - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht) | |
428 | - SB16 emulation (malc) | |
429 | - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3 | |
430 | - Port I/Os use TSS io map | |
431 | - Full task switching/task gate support | |
67867308 FB |
432 | - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx |
433 | - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
3811a291 | 434 | - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work) |
9c3ad574 | 435 | |
285dc330 | 436 | version 0.5.0: |
3b46e624 | 437 | |
9368caf6 FB |
438 | - full hardware level VGA emulation |
439 | - graphical display with SDL | |
440 | - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation | |
441 | - popw (%esp) fix | |
442 | - mov to/from segment data width fix | |
443 | - added real mode support | |
0806e3f6 | 444 | - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu |
9368caf6 FB |
445 | - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky) |
446 | - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os | |
447 | - multi-target build | |
fcf8fcc8 FB |
448 | - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts |
449 | - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn | |
a31f0531 | 450 | - correct single stepping through string operations |
0806e3f6 FB |
451 | - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg) |
452 | - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell) | |
453 | - automatic IDE geometry detection | |
285dc330 | 454 | - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}. |
0806e3f6 | 455 | - added man page |
9c3ad574 | 456 | - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes. |
9368caf6 | 457 | |
9d0fe224 FB |
458 | version 0.4.3: |
459 | ||
460 | - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction. | |
461 | - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix) | |
462 | - sparc and Alpha host fixes | |
463 | - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched. | |
464 | ||
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465 | version 0.4.2: |
466 | ||
467 | - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl) | |
468 | - IDE emulation support | |
469 | - initial GDB stub support | |
470 | - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell) | |
9d0fe224 | 471 | - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images |
4690764b FB |
472 | - SMP kernels can at least be booted |
473 | ||
d5a0b50c | 474 | version 0.4.1: |
3b46e624 | 475 | |
d5a0b50c FB |
476 | - more accurate timer support in vl. |
477 | - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl. | |
478 | - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test. | |
479 | - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl. | |
480 | ||
6c0372d3 FB |
481 | version 0.4: |
482 | ||
483 | - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation | |
484 | - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation | |
485 | - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap() | |
486 | - fixed popl (%esp) case | |
1eb20527 | 487 | - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command. |
6c0372d3 | 488 | |
411bffc4 | 489 | version 0.3: |
de83cd02 FB |
490 | |
491 | - initial support for ARM emulation | |
411bffc4 FB |
492 | - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions |
493 | - added FPU register save in signal emulation | |
322d0c66 | 494 | - initial ARM port |
de83cd02 FB |
495 | - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test |
496 | - generic ioctl number conversion | |
497 | - fixed ioctl type conversion | |
411bffc4 | 498 | |
3c51961e FB |
499 | version 0.2: |
500 | ||
1eb20527 FB |
501 | - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell) |
502 | - flock support (Rusty Russell) | |
503 | - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell) | |
504 | - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell) | |
3c51961e FB |
505 | - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner) |
506 | - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson) | |
507 | - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller) | |
86840ae2 | 508 | - added HLT instruction |
70e19860 FB |
509 | - LRET instruction fix. |
510 | - added GPF generation for I/Os. | |
511 | - added INT3 and TF flag support. | |
512 | - SHL instruction C flag fix. | |
513 | - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB | |
514 | - self-modifying code support | |
df0f11a0 FB |
515 | - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs) |
516 | - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases) | |
517 | - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation | |
518 | - faster segment load in vm86 mode | |
519 | - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation) | |
3c51961e | 520 | |
66cd5846 FB |
521 | version 0.1.6: |
522 | ||
1eb87257 FB |
523 | - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched |
524 | ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell). | |
66cd5846 | 525 | - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan) |
1eb87257 FB |
526 | - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the |
527 | translation cache is not flushed) | |
528 | - RH9 fixes | |
66cd5846 | 529 | |
27c75a9a FB |
530 | version 0.1.5: |
531 | ||
532 | - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell) | |
533 | - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner) | |
cbae0863 | 534 | - removed bfd.h dependency |
27c75a9a FB |
535 | - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC. |
536 | - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC). | |
537 | ||
bc8a22cc FB |
538 | version 0.1.4: |
539 | ||
540 | - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit | |
541 | executables in wine). | |
542 | - fixed push/pop fs/gs | |
543 | - added iret instruction. | |
27c75a9a | 544 | - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl. |
bc8a22cc FB |
545 | |
546 | version 0.1.3: | |
547 | ||
548 | - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand) | |
549 | - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
550 | - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
551 | - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
552 | - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
553 | - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
554 | - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
555 | - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand) | |
556 | - more accurate pushf/popf emulation | |
557 | - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example). | |
558 | - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions | |
559 | - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations | |
560 | - poll() fix | |
5fafdf24 | 561 | |
bc8a22cc FB |
562 | version 0.1.2: |
563 | ||
564 | - compile fixes | |
565 | - xlat instruction | |
566 | - xchg instruction memory lock | |
567 | - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte | |
568 | DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram | |
569 | Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html). | |
570 | ||
d691f669 FB |
571 | version 0.1.1: |
572 | ||
573 | - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes | |
574 | - added -s and -L options | |
575 | - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine | |
bc8a22cc | 576 | - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents. |
d691f669 | 577 | |
3ef693a0 FB |
578 | version 0.1: |
579 | ||
580 | - initial public release. |