Changelog

   1 version 0.10.1:
   2
   3   - virtio-net: allow masking of notifications on empty queue (Alex Williamson)
   4   - e1000: fix rx descriptor low threshold logic (Alex Willaimson)
   5   - x86 tcg: add NULL checks to lsl instruction (Jan Kiszka)
   6   - kvm vga: fix screen corruption with -std-vga and Windows (Avi Kivity)
   7   - kvm vga: fix screen corruption with Ubuntu installations (Glauber Costa)
   8   - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson)
   9   - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug)
  10     (Marcelo Tosatti)
  11   - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info).  This series of changes added
  12     a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori)
  13   - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno)
  14   - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori)
  15   - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request.  When using TCG and a dynticks
  16     host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite
  17     loop (Aurelien Jarno)
  18   - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka)
  19   - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka)
  20   - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka)
  21   - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka)
  22   - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka)
  23   - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka)
  24   - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel)
  25   - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation
  26     (Ryan Harper)
  27
  28 version 0.10.0:
  29
  30   - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
  31   - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
  32   - BSD userspace emulation
  33   - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
  34   - GDB XML register description support
  35   - Intel e1000 emulation
  36   - HPET emulation
  37   - VirtIO paravirtual device support
  38   - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
  39   - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
  40   - PCI hotplug support
  41   - Live migration and new save/restore formats
  42   - Curses display support
  43   - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
  44   - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
  45   - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
  46   - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
  47   - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
  48   - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
  49   - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
  50   - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  51   - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
  52   - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
  53   - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
  54
  55 version 0.9.1:
  56
  57   - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
  58   - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
  59   - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
  60   - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
  61   - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
  62   - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
  63   - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
  64   - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  65   - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
  66   - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
  67   - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
  68   - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
  69   - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
  70   - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
  71   - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
  72   - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
  73   - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
  74   - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
  75   - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  76   - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
  77   - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
  78   - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
  79   - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  80
  81 version 0.9.0:
  82
  83   - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
  84   - Async file I/O API
  85   - New qcow2 disk image format
  86   - Support of multiple VM snapshots
  87   - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
  88   - SMM support
  89   - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
  90   - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
  91   - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
  92   - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  93   - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
  94   - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
  95   - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
  96   - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
  97   - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
  98
  99 version 0.8.2:
 100
 101   - ACPI support
 102   - PC VGA BIOS fixes
 103   - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
 104   - VNC server fixes
 105   - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
 106   - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
 107   - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
 108   - USB updates (Paul Brook)
 109   - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
 110   - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
 111   - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
 112   - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
 113   - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
 114   - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
 115   - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
 116   - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
 117
 118 version 0.8.1:
 119
 120   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
 121   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
 122   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
 123   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
 124   - SSE3 support
 125   - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
 126   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
 127   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
 128   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
 129   - USB fixes
 130   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
 131
 132 version 0.8.0:
 133
 134   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
 135     cpu (Paul Brook)
 136   - SMP support
 137   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
 138   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
 139   - DirectSound driver (malc)
 140   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
 141   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
 142   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
 143   - Initial USB support
 144   - Linux host serial port access
 145   - Linux host low level parallel port access
 146   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
 147   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
 148   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
 149   - NX bit support
 150   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
 151   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
 152     (Johannes Schindelin)
 153
 154 version 0.7.2:
 155
 156   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
 157   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
 158   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
 159   - better user net performances
 160
 161 version 0.7.1:
 162
 163   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
 164   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
 165     N. Oleynik)
 166   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
 167   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
 168   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
 169   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
 170   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
 171   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
 172
 173 version 0.7.0:
 174
 175   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
 176   - user mode networking bug fix
 177   - undocumented FPU ops support
 178   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
 179   - 'pidfile' option
 180   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
 181   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
 182   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
 183   - added generic 64 bit target support
 184   - x86_64 target support
 185   - initial APIC support
 186   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
 187   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
 188   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
 189   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
 190   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
 191   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
 192   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
 193   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
 194   - Samba 3 support
 195   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 196   - generic FPU emulation code
 197   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
 198
 199 version 0.6.1:
 200
 201   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 202   - Virtual console support
 203   - Better monitor line edition
 204   - New block device layer
 205   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
 206     transparent decompression
 207   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
 208   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
 209   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
 210   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
 211   - Support for not executable data sections
 212   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
 213   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
 214     Wormley)
 215   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
 216     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 217   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 218   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 219   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 220   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 221   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 222   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 223     the virtual consoles.
 224   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 225   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 226   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 227   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 228   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 229   - VGA font change fix
 230   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 231
 232 version 0.6.0:
 233
 234   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 235   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 236   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 237   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 238   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 239   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 240   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 241   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 242   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 243   - PCI support
 244   - NE2K PCI support
 245   - dummy VGA PCI support
 246   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 247   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 248   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 249   - added '-localtime' option
 250   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 251   - APM and system shutdown support
 252   - Fixed system reset
 253   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 254   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 255   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 256   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 257   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 258
 259 version 0.5.5:
 260
 261   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 262   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 263   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 264   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 265   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 266   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 267   - FDC fixes for Win98
 268
 269 version 0.5.4:
 270
 271   - qemu-fast fixes
 272   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 273   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 274   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 275   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 276   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 277   - User mode network stack
 278   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 279   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 280
 281 version 0.5.3:
 282
 283   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 284   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 285   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 286   - CPU interrupt fixes
 287   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 288   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 289   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 290   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 291   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 292     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 293   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 294   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 295   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 296   - graphical x86 linux loader
 297   - command line monitor
 298   - generic removable device support
 299   - support of CD-ROM change
 300   - multiple network interface support
 301   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 302   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 303   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 304   - VM save/restore commands
 305   - new timer API
 306   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 307   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 308
 309 version 0.5.2:
 310
 311   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 312   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 313     switching tasks
 314   - improved qemu-fast speed
 315   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 316     softmmu mode).
 317   - fixed IO checking
 318   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 319   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 320   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 321   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 322   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 323     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 324   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 325   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 326   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 327   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 328   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 329   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 330   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 331   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 332   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 333
 334 version 0.5.1:
 335
 336   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 337   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 338   - A20 support
 339   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 340   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 341   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 342   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 343   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 344   - Full task switching/task gate support
 345   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 346   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 347   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 348
 349 version 0.5.0:
 350
 351   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 352   - graphical display with SDL
 353   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 354   - popw (%esp) fix
 355   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 356   - added real mode support
 357   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 358   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 359   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 360   - multi-target build
 361   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 362   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 363   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 364   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 365   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 366   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 367   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 368   - added man page
 369   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 370
 371 version 0.4.3:
 372
 373   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 374   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 375   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 376   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 377
 378 version 0.4.2:
 379
 380  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 381  - IDE emulation support
 382  - initial GDB stub support
 383  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 384  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 385  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 386
 387 version 0.4.1:
 388
 389  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 390  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 391  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 392  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 393
 394 version 0.4:
 395
 396  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 397  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 398  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 399  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 400  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 401
 402 version 0.3:
 403
 404  - initial support for ARM emulation
 405  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 406  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 407  - initial ARM port
 408  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 409  - generic ioctl number conversion
 410  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 411
 412 version 0.2:
 413
 414  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 415  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 416  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 417  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 418  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 419  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 420  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 421  - added HLT instruction
 422  - LRET instruction fix.
 423  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 424  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 425  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 426  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 427  - self-modifying code support
 428  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 429  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 430  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 431  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 432  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 433
 434 version 0.1.6:
 435
 436  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 437    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 438  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 439  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 440    translation cache is not flushed)
 441  - RH9 fixes
 442
 443 version 0.1.5:
 444
 445  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 446  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 447  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 448  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 449  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 450
 451 version 0.1.4:
 452
 453  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 454    executables in wine).
 455  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 456  - added iret instruction.
 457  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 458
 459 version 0.1.3:
 460
 461  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 462  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 463  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 464  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 465  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 466  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 467  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 468  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 469  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 470  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 471  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 472  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 473  - poll() fix
 474
 475 version 0.1.2:
 476
 477  - compile fixes
 478  - xlat instruction
 479  - xchg instruction memory lock
 480  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 481    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 482    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 483
 484 version 0.1.1:
 485
 486  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 487  - added -s and -L options
 488  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 489  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 490
 491 version 0.1:
 492
 493  - initial public release.