Changelog

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