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