Changelog

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