Changelog

   1 version 0.6.2:
   2
   3   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
   4   - user mode networking bug fix
   5   - undocumented FPU ops support
   6   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
   7   - 'pidfile' option
   8   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
   9
  10 version 0.6.1:
  11
  12   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  13   - Virtual console support
  14   - Better monitor line edition
  15   - New block device layer
  16   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
  17     transparent decompression
  18   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
  19   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
  20   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
  21   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
  22   - Support for not executable data sections
  23   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
  24   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
  25     Wormley)
  26   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
  27     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
  28   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
  29   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
  30   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
  31   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
  32   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
  33   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
  34     the virtual consoles.
  35   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
  36   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
  37   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
  38   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
  39   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
  40   - VGA font change fix
  41   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
  42
  43 version 0.6.0:
  44
  45   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
  46   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
  47   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
  48   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
  49   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
  50   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
  51   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
  52   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
  53   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
  54   - PCI support
  55   - NE2K PCI support
  56   - dummy VGA PCI support
  57   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
  58   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
  59   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
  60   - added '-localtime' option
  61   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
  62   - APM and system shutdown support
  63   - Fixed system reset
  64   - Support for other PC BIOSes
  65   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
  66   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
  67   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
  68   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
  69
  70 version 0.5.5:
  71
  72   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
  73   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
  74   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
  75   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
  76   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
  77   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
  78   - FDC fixes for Win98
  79
  80 version 0.5.4:
  81
  82   - qemu-fast fixes
  83   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
  84   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
  85   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
  86   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
  87   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
  88   - User mode network stack
  89   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
  90   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
  91
  92 version 0.5.3:
  93
  94   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
  95   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
  96   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
  97   - CPU interrupt fixes
  98   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
  99   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 100   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 101   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 102   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 103     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 104   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 105   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 106   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 107   - graphical x86 linux loader
 108   - command line monitor
 109   - generic removable device support
 110   - support of CD-ROM change
 111   - multiple network interface support
 112   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 113   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 114   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 115   - VM save/restore commands
 116   - new timer API
 117   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 118   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 119
 120 version 0.5.2:
 121
 122   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 123   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 124     switching tasks
 125   - improved qemu-fast speed
 126   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 127     softmmu mode).
 128   - fixed IO checking
 129   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 130   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 131   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 132   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 133   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 134     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 135   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 136   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 137   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 138   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 139   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 140   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 141   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 142   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 143   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 144
 145 version 0.5.1:
 146
 147   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 148   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 149   - A20 support
 150   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 151   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 152   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 153   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 154   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 155   - Full task switching/task gate support
 156   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 157   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 158   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 159
 160 version 0.5.0:
 161
 162   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 163   - graphical display with SDL
 164   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 165   - popw (%esp) fix
 166   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 167   - added real mode support
 168   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 169   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 170   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 171   - multi-target build
 172   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 173   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 174   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 175   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 176   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 177   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 178   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 179   - added man page
 180   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 181
 182 version 0.4.3:
 183
 184   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 185   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 186   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 187   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 188
 189 version 0.4.2:
 190
 191  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 192  - IDE emulation support
 193  - initial GDB stub support
 194  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 195  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 196  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 197
 198 version 0.4.1:
 199
 200  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 201  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 202  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 203  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 204
 205 version 0.4:
 206
 207  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 208  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 209  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 210  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 211  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 212
 213 version 0.3:
 214
 215  - initial support for ARM emulation
 216  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 217  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 218  - initial ARM port
 219  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 220  - generic ioctl number conversion
 221  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 222
 223 version 0.2:
 224
 225  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 226  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 227  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 228  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 229  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 230  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 231  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 232  - added HLT instruction
 233  - LRET instruction fix.
 234  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 235  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 236  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 237  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 238  - self-modifying code support
 239  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 240  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 241  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 242  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 243  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 244
 245 version 0.1.6:
 246
 247  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 248    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 249  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 250  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 251    translation cache is not flushed)
 252  - RH9 fixes
 253
 254 version 0.1.5:
 255
 256  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 257  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 258  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 259  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 260  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 261
 262 version 0.1.4:
 263
 264  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 265    executables in wine).
 266  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 267  - added iret instruction.
 268  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 269
 270 version 0.1.3:
 271
 272  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 273  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 274  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 275  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 276  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 277  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 278  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 279  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 280  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 281  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 282  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 283  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 284  - poll() fix
 285
 286 version 0.1.2:
 287
 288  - compile fixes
 289  - xlat instruction
 290  - xchg instruction memory lock
 291  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 292    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 293    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 294
 295 version 0.1.1:
 296
 297  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 298  - added -s and -L options
 299  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 300  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 301
 302 version 0.1:
 303
 304  - initial public release.