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