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1 | version 0.8.3: |
2 | ||
3 | - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images | |
4 | - Async file I/O API | |
13a2e80f FB |
5 | - New qcow2 disk image format |
6 | - Support of multiple VM snapshots | |
83f64091 | 7 | |
a08beb33 FB |
8 | version 0.8.2: |
9 | ||
856860f5 | 10 | - ACPI support |
a08beb33 FB |
11 | - PC VGA BIOS fixes |
12 | - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl) | |
13 | - VNC server fixes | |
14 | - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger) | |
15 | - Solaris/SPARC host support (Ben Taylor) | |
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16 | - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel) |
17 | - USB updates (Paul Brook) | |
63301264 | 18 | - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel) |
beac80cd | 19 | - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio) |
63301264 FB |
20 | - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko) |
21 | - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis) | |
22 | - Support for variable frequency host CPUs | |
23 | - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts | |
24 | - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
25 | - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc) | |
a08beb33 | 26 | |
210fe0be FB |
27 | version 0.8.1: |
28 | ||
29 | - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori) | |
30 | - win32 host serial support (Kazu) | |
fd06c375 | 31 | - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke) |
a8ca632c FB |
32 | - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe) |
33 | - SSE3 support | |
34 | - Solaris port (Ben Taylor) | |
27c7ca7e | 35 | - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu) |
24236869 | 36 | - VNC server (Anthony Liguori) |
691fce48 FB |
37 | - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.) |
38 | - USB fixes | |
39 | - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook) | |
210fe0be | 40 | |
90dc3b39 | 41 | version 0.8.0: |
1d14ffa9 | 42 | |
b5ff1b31 FB |
43 | - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s |
44 | cpu (Paul Brook) | |
45 | - SMP support | |
1d14ffa9 | 46 | - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg) |
6f5f11a5 | 47 | - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg) |
1d14ffa9 | 48 | - DirectSound driver (malc) |
d5d11eac | 49 | - ALSA audio driver (malc) |
6f5f11a5 | 50 | - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc) |
1d14ffa9 | 51 | - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc) |
bb36d470 | 52 | - Initial USB support |
f8d179e3 | 53 | - Linux host serial port access |
e57a8c0e | 54 | - Linux host low level parallel port access |
41d03949 | 55 | - New network emulation code supporting VLANs. |
ea31eb5b | 56 | - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation |
f881a0d4 FB |
57 | - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz) |
58 | - NX bit support | |
ba3c64fb | 59 | - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl) |
2c6cadd4 FB |
60 | - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support |
61 | (Johannes Schindelin) | |
f8d179e3 | 62 | |
a7c15abb FB |
63 | version 0.7.2: |
64 | ||
65 | - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit) | |
66 | - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism. | |
67 | - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle) | |
68 | - better user net performances | |
69 | ||
de167e41 FB |
70 | version 0.7.1: |
71 | ||
72 | - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin) | |
a09db21f FB |
73 | - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir |
74 | N. Oleynik) | |
8979b227 | 75 | - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara) |
3475187d | 76 | - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl) |
b195775f FB |
77 | - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer) |
78 | - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle) | |
33d08439 | 79 | - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne) |
a7c15abb | 80 | - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara) |
de167e41 | 81 | |
a8753c34 | 82 | version 0.7.0: |
bed5cd80 FB |
83 | |
84 | - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection | |
85 | - user mode networking bug fix | |
86 | - undocumented FPU ops support | |
a07167d3 | 87 | - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes |
6a78ece5 | 88 | - 'pidfile' option |
585d0ed9 | 89 | - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin) |
3d11d0eb | 90 | - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin) |
808c4954 | 91 | - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek) |
bdfaf503 | 92 | - added generic 64 bit target support |
a8753c34 | 93 | - x86_64 target support |
bdfaf503 | 94 | - initial APIC support |
664e0f19 | 95 | - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support |
6508fe59 | 96 | - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere) |
99c475ab | 97 | - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl) |
a8753c34 | 98 | - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl) |
99c475ab | 99 | - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook) |
b7bcbe95 | 100 | - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook) |
a8753c34 FB |
101 | - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook) |
102 | - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook) | |
232ba5ab FB |
103 | - Samba 3 support |
104 | - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont) | |
a8753c34 | 105 | - generic FPU emulation code |
6a0f9e82 | 106 | - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi) |
bed5cd80 | 107 | |
49b3b9fb FB |
108 | version 0.6.1: |
109 | ||
110 | - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont) | |
111 | - Virtual console support | |
05d5818c FB |
112 | - Better monitor line edition |
113 | - New block device layer | |
114 | - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and | |
115 | transparent decompression | |
116 | - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested) | |
117 | - Support for up to 4 serial ports | |
c7f74643 | 118 | - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm) |
9bf05444 | 119 | - Port redirection support in user mode networking |
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120 | - Support for not executable data sections |
121 | - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin) | |
122 | - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve | |
123 | Wormley) | |
525d67bc FB |
124 | - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any |
125 | LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2) | |
126 | - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone) | |
e95c8d51 | 127 | - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl) |
2518bd0d | 128 | - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows. |
d63d307f | 129 | - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options |
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130 | - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin) |
131 | - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to | |
132 | the virtual consoles. | |
655aa52a FB |
133 | - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert) |
134 | - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell) | |
135 | - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell) | |
d75d9f6b | 136 | - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc) |
61a8c4ec | 137 | - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi) |
c76338c3 FB |
138 | - VGA font change fix |
139 | - VGA read-only CRTC register fix | |
49b3b9fb | 140 | |
d08c49aa | 141 | version 0.6.0: |
44c513c4 FB |
142 | |
143 | - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix) | |
144 | - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot) | |
f528bfd4 FB |
145 | - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto) |
146 | - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere) | |
147 | - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell) | |
148 | - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix) | |
149 | - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix) | |
150 | - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix | |
69b91039 FB |
151 | - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images |
152 | - PCI support | |
153 | - NE2K PCI support | |
4399059e FB |
154 | - dummy VGA PCI support |
155 | - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell) | |
b54ad049 | 156 | - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI) |
15aeac38 | 157 | - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug) |
be3edd95 | 158 | - added '-localtime' option |
7e71f16f | 159 | - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu)) |
987c1c69 FB |
160 | - APM and system shutdown support |
161 | - Fixed system reset | |
70867490 | 162 | - Support for other PC BIOSes |
638260eb FB |
163 | - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation |
164 | - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
d08c49aa | 165 | - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86) |
7e71f16f | 166 | - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB |
44c513c4 | 167 | |
b06eddd3 FB |
168 | version 0.5.5: |
169 | ||
170 | - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc) | |
171 | - VGA support on PowerPC PREP | |
172 | - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci) | |
a1b74fe8 | 173 | - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug) |
66201e2d | 174 | - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug) |
a1b74fe8 FB |
175 | - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht) |
176 | - FDC fixes for Win98 | |
b06eddd3 | 177 | |
2f0c934e FB |
178 | version 0.5.4: |
179 | ||
180 | - qemu-fast fixes | |
181 | - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell) | |
182 | - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell) | |
183 | - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers) | |
184 | - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell) | |
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185 | - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer) |
186 | - User mode network stack | |
187 | - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI) | |
52c00a5f | 188 | - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug) |
2f0c934e | 189 | |
625976da FB |
190 | version 0.5.3: |
191 | ||
6411cfb6 | 192 | - added Bochs VESA VBE support |
625976da FB |
193 | - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix) |
194 | - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe) | |
195 | - CPU interrupt fixes | |
196 | - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install) | |
22a46c55 | 197 | - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install) |
94fe4f9f | 198 | - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster) |
22a46c55 FB |
199 | - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht) |
200 | - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance | |
201 | in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast) | |
94fe4f9f FB |
202 | - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras) |
203 | - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation | |
204 | - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix) | |
205 | - graphical x86 linux loader | |
206 | - command line monitor | |
207 | - generic removable device support | |
208 | - support of CD-ROM change | |
209 | - multiple network interface support | |
bc51c5c9 | 210 | - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne) |
d9d849fc | 211 | - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix) |
bb27c190 FB |
212 | - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot) |
213 | - VM save/restore commands | |
214 | - new timer API | |
215 | - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates) | |
67b915a5 | 216 | - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu) |
bb27c190 | 217 | |
efe160c5 | 218 | version 0.5.2: |
2be3bc02 | 219 | |
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220 | - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing) |
221 | - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when | |
222 | switching tasks | |
223 | - improved qemu-fast speed | |
224 | - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in | |
225 | softmmu mode). | |
226 | - fixed IO checking | |
227 | - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD) | |
228 | - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix) | |
229 | - added ROM memory support (win98 boot) | |
230 | - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception | |
231 | - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically | |
232 | when launching executables for the supported target CPUs. | |
728c9fd5 FB |
233 | - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer) |
234 | - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
235 | - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
2be3bc02 FB |
236 | - fixed PTE dirty bit handling |
237 | - fixed xadd same reg bug | |
238 | - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness | |
3d4b4c0f FB |
239 | - access to virtual memory in gdb stub |
240 | - task gate and NT flag fixes | |
e98c8721 | 241 | - eflags optimisation fix for string operations |
efe160c5 | 242 | |
9c3ad574 FB |
243 | version 0.5.1: |
244 | ||
245 | - float access fixes when using soft mmu | |
246 | - PC emulation support on PowerPC | |
247 | - A20 support | |
181f1558 FB |
248 | - IDE CD-ROM emulation |
249 | - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht) | |
250 | - SB16 emulation (malc) | |
251 | - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3 | |
252 | - Port I/Os use TSS io map | |
253 | - Full task switching/task gate support | |
67867308 FB |
254 | - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx |
255 | - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
3811a291 | 256 | - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work) |
9c3ad574 | 257 | |
285dc330 | 258 | version 0.5.0: |
9368caf6 FB |
259 | |
260 | - full hardware level VGA emulation | |
261 | - graphical display with SDL | |
262 | - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation | |
263 | - popw (%esp) fix | |
264 | - mov to/from segment data width fix | |
265 | - added real mode support | |
0806e3f6 | 266 | - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu |
9368caf6 FB |
267 | - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky) |
268 | - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os | |
269 | - multi-target build | |
fcf8fcc8 FB |
270 | - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts |
271 | - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn | |
272 | - correct single stepping thru string operations | |
0806e3f6 FB |
273 | - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg) |
274 | - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell) | |
275 | - automatic IDE geometry detection | |
285dc330 | 276 | - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}. |
0806e3f6 | 277 | - added man page |
9c3ad574 | 278 | - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes. |
9368caf6 | 279 | |
9d0fe224 FB |
280 | version 0.4.3: |
281 | ||
282 | - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction. | |
283 | - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix) | |
284 | - sparc and Alpha host fixes | |
285 | - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched. | |
286 | ||
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287 | version 0.4.2: |
288 | ||
289 | - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl) | |
290 | - IDE emulation support | |
291 | - initial GDB stub support | |
292 | - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell) | |
9d0fe224 | 293 | - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images |
4690764b FB |
294 | - SMP kernels can at least be booted |
295 | ||
d5a0b50c FB |
296 | version 0.4.1: |
297 | ||
298 | - more accurate timer support in vl. | |
299 | - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl. | |
300 | - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test. | |
301 | - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl. | |
302 | ||
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303 | version 0.4: |
304 | ||
305 | - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation | |
306 | - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation | |
307 | - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap() | |
308 | - fixed popl (%esp) case | |
1eb20527 | 309 | - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command. |
6c0372d3 | 310 | |
411bffc4 | 311 | version 0.3: |
de83cd02 FB |
312 | |
313 | - initial support for ARM emulation | |
411bffc4 FB |
314 | - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions |
315 | - added FPU register save in signal emulation | |
322d0c66 | 316 | - initial ARM port |
de83cd02 FB |
317 | - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test |
318 | - generic ioctl number conversion | |
319 | - fixed ioctl type conversion | |
411bffc4 | 320 | |
3c51961e FB |
321 | version 0.2: |
322 | ||
1eb20527 FB |
323 | - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell) |
324 | - flock support (Rusty Russell) | |
325 | - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell) | |
326 | - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell) | |
3c51961e FB |
327 | - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner) |
328 | - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson) | |
329 | - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller) | |
86840ae2 | 330 | - added HLT instruction |
70e19860 FB |
331 | - LRET instruction fix. |
332 | - added GPF generation for I/Os. | |
333 | - added INT3 and TF flag support. | |
334 | - SHL instruction C flag fix. | |
335 | - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB | |
336 | - self-modifying code support | |
df0f11a0 FB |
337 | - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs) |
338 | - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases) | |
339 | - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation | |
340 | - faster segment load in vm86 mode | |
341 | - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation) | |
3c51961e | 342 | |
66cd5846 FB |
343 | version 0.1.6: |
344 | ||
1eb87257 FB |
345 | - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched |
346 | ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell). | |
66cd5846 | 347 | - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan) |
1eb87257 FB |
348 | - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the |
349 | translation cache is not flushed) | |
350 | - RH9 fixes | |
66cd5846 | 351 | |
27c75a9a FB |
352 | version 0.1.5: |
353 | ||
354 | - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell) | |
355 | - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner) | |
356 | - removed bfd.h dependancy | |
357 | - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC. | |
358 | - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC). | |
359 | ||
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360 | version 0.1.4: |
361 | ||
362 | - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit | |
363 | executables in wine). | |
364 | - fixed push/pop fs/gs | |
365 | - added iret instruction. | |
27c75a9a | 366 | - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl. |
bc8a22cc FB |
367 | |
368 | version 0.1.3: | |
369 | ||
370 | - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand) | |
371 | - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
372 | - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
373 | - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
374 | - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
375 | - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
376 | - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
377 | - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand) | |
378 | - more accurate pushf/popf emulation | |
379 | - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example). | |
380 | - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions | |
381 | - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations | |
382 | - poll() fix | |
383 | ||
384 | version 0.1.2: | |
385 | ||
386 | - compile fixes | |
387 | - xlat instruction | |
388 | - xchg instruction memory lock | |
389 | - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte | |
390 | DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram | |
391 | Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html). | |
392 | ||
d691f669 FB |
393 | version 0.1.1: |
394 | ||
395 | - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes | |
396 | - added -s and -L options | |
397 | - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine | |
bc8a22cc | 398 | - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents. |
d691f669 | 399 | |
3ef693a0 FB |
400 | version 0.1: |
401 | ||
402 | - initial public release. |