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