Changelog

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