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1version 0.6.2:
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3 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
4 - user mode networking bug fix
5 - undocumented FPU ops support
a07167d3 6 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
6a78ece5 7 - 'pidfile' option
585d0ed9 8 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
3d11d0eb 9 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
808c4954 10 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
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11 - added generic 64 bit target support
12 - initial x86_64 target support
13 - initial APIC support
664e0f19 14 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
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16version 0.6.1:
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18 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
19 - Virtual console support
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20 - Better monitor line edition
21 - New block device layer
22 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
23 transparent decompression
24 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
25 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
c7f74643 26 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
9bf05444 27 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
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28 - Support for not executable data sections
29 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
30 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
31 Wormley)
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32 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
33 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
34 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
e95c8d51 35 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
2518bd0d 36 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
d63d307f 37 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
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38 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
39 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
40 the virtual consoles.
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41 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
42 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
43 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
d75d9f6b 44 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
61a8c4ec 45 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
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46 - VGA font change fix
47 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
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d08c49aa 49version 0.6.0:
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50
51 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
52 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
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53 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
54 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
55 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
56 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
57 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
58 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
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59 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
60 - PCI support
61 - NE2K PCI support
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62 - dummy VGA PCI support
63 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
b54ad049 64 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
15aeac38 65 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
be3edd95 66 - added '-localtime' option
7e71f16f 67 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
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68 - APM and system shutdown support
69 - Fixed system reset
70867490 70 - Support for other PC BIOSes
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71 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
72 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
d08c49aa 73 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
7e71f16f 74 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
44c513c4 75
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76version 0.5.5:
77
78 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
79 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
80 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
a1b74fe8 81 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
66201e2d 82 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
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83 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
84 - FDC fixes for Win98
b06eddd3 85
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86version 0.5.4:
87
88 - qemu-fast fixes
89 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
90 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
91 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
92 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
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93 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
94 - User mode network stack
95 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
52c00a5f 96 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
2f0c934e 97
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98version 0.5.3:
99
6411cfb6 100 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
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101 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
102 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
103 - CPU interrupt fixes
104 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
22a46c55 105 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
94fe4f9f 106 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
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107 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
108 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
109 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
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110 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
111 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
112 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
113 - graphical x86 linux loader
114 - command line monitor
115 - generic removable device support
116 - support of CD-ROM change
117 - multiple network interface support
bc51c5c9 118 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
d9d849fc 119 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
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120 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
121 - VM save/restore commands
122 - new timer API
123 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
67b915a5 124 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
bb27c190 125
efe160c5 126version 0.5.2:
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128 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
129 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
130 switching tasks
131 - improved qemu-fast speed
132 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
133 softmmu mode).
134 - fixed IO checking
135 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
136 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
137 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
138 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
139 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
140 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
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141 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
142 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
143 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
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144 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
145 - fixed xadd same reg bug
146 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
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147 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
148 - task gate and NT flag fixes
e98c8721 149 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
efe160c5 150
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151version 0.5.1:
152
153 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
154 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
155 - A20 support
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156 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
157 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
158 - SB16 emulation (malc)
159 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
160 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
161 - Full task switching/task gate support
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162 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
163 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
3811a291 164 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
9c3ad574 165
285dc330 166version 0.5.0:
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167
168 - full hardware level VGA emulation
169 - graphical display with SDL
170 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
171 - popw (%esp) fix
172 - mov to/from segment data width fix
173 - added real mode support
0806e3f6 174 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
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175 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
176 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
177 - multi-target build
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178 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
179 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
180 - correct single stepping thru string operations
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181 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
182 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
183 - automatic IDE geometry detection
285dc330 184 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
0806e3f6 185 - added man page
9c3ad574 186 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
9368caf6 187
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188version 0.4.3:
189
190 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
191 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
192 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
193 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
194
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195version 0.4.2:
196
197 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
198 - IDE emulation support
199 - initial GDB stub support
200 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
9d0fe224 201 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
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202 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
203
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204version 0.4.1:
205
206 - more accurate timer support in vl.
207 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
208 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
209 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
210
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211version 0.4:
212
213 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
214 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
215 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
216 - fixed popl (%esp) case
1eb20527 217 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
6c0372d3 218
411bffc4 219version 0.3:
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220
221 - initial support for ARM emulation
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222 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
223 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
322d0c66 224 - initial ARM port
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225 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
226 - generic ioctl number conversion
227 - fixed ioctl type conversion
411bffc4 228
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229version 0.2:
230
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231 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
232 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
233 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
234 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
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235 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
236 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
237 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
86840ae2 238 - added HLT instruction
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239 - LRET instruction fix.
240 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
241 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
242 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
243 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
244 - self-modifying code support
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245 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
246 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
247 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
248 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
249 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
3c51961e 250
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251version 0.1.6:
252
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253 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
254 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
66cd5846 255 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
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256 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
257 translation cache is not flushed)
258 - RH9 fixes
66cd5846 259
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260version 0.1.5:
261
262 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
263 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
264 - removed bfd.h dependancy
265 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
266 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
267
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268version 0.1.4:
269
270 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
271 executables in wine).
272 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
273 - added iret instruction.
27c75a9a 274 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
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275
276version 0.1.3:
277
278 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
279 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
280 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
281 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
282 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
283 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
284 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
285 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
286 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
287 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
288 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
289 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
290 - poll() fix
291
292version 0.1.2:
293
294 - compile fixes
295 - xlat instruction
296 - xchg instruction memory lock
297 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
298 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
299 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
300
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301version 0.1.1:
302
303 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
304 - added -s and -L options
305 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
bc8a22cc 306 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
d691f669 307
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308version 0.1:
309
310 - initial public release.