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1This file documents changes for QEMU releases 0.12 and earlier.
2For changelog information for later releases, see
85938981 3http://wiki.qemu-project.org/ChangeLog or look at the git history for
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4more detailed information.
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7version 0.12.0:
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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
41version 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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77version 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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93version 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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115version 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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142version 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 168version 0.9.0:
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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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186version 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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205version 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 219version 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 241version 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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248version 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 260version 0.7.0:
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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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286version 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)
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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)
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316 - VGA font change fix
317 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
49b3b9fb 318
d08c49aa 319version 0.6.0:
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321 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
322 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
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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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346version 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 356version 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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368version 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
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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 396version 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.
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411 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
412 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
413 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
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414 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
415 - fixed xadd same reg bug
416 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
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417 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
418 - task gate and NT flag fixes
e98c8721 419 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
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9c3ad574 421version 0.5.1:
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423 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
424 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
425 - A20 support
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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
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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 436version 0.5.0:
3b46e624 437
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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
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445 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
446 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
447 - multi-target build
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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
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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.
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458version 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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465version 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
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472 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
473
d5a0b50c 474version 0.4.1:
3b46e624 475
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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
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481version 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 489version 0.3:
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490
491 - initial support for ARM emulation
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492 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
493 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
322d0c66 494 - initial ARM port
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495 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
496 - generic ioctl number conversion
497 - fixed ioctl type conversion
411bffc4 498
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499version 0.2:
500
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501 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
502 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
503 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
504 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
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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
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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
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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
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521version 0.1.6:
522
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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)
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526 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
527 translation cache is not flushed)
528 - RH9 fixes
66cd5846 529
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530version 0.1.5:
531
532 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
533 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
cbae0863 534 - removed bfd.h dependency
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535 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
536 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
537
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538version 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.
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546version 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
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562version 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
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571version 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
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578version 0.1:
579
580 - initial public release.