Changelog

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