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