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