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, Robert Reif)
   7   - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
   8   - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej 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   - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
  15   - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
  16   - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
  17   - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
  18   - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
  19   - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  20   - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
  21   - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
  22   - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
  23   - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  24
  25 version 0.9.0:
  26
  27   - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
  28   - Async file I/O API
  29   - New qcow2 disk image format
  30   - Support of multiple VM snapshots
  31   - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
  32   - SMM support
  33   - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
  34   - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
  35   - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
  36   - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  37   - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
  38   - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
  39   - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
  40   - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
  41   - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
  42
  43 version 0.8.2:
  44
  45   - ACPI support
  46   - PC VGA BIOS fixes
  47   - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
  48   - VNC server fixes
  49   - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
  50   - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
  51   - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
  52   - USB updates (Paul Brook)
  53   - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
  54   - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
  55   - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
  56   - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
  57   - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
  58   - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
  59   - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
  60   - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
  61
  62 version 0.8.1:
  63
  64   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
  65   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
  66   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
  67   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
  68   - SSE3 support
  69   - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
  70   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
  71   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
  72   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
  73   - USB fixes
  74   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
  75
  76 version 0.8.0:
  77
  78   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
  79     cpu (Paul Brook)
  80   - SMP support
  81   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
  82   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
  83   - DirectSound driver (malc)
  84   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
  85   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
  86   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
  87   - Initial USB support
  88   - Linux host serial port access
  89   - Linux host low level parallel port access
  90   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
  91   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
  92   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
  93   - NX bit support
  94   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
  95   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
  96     (Johannes Schindelin)
  97
  98 version 0.7.2:
  99
 100   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
 101   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
 102   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
 103   - better user net performances
 104
 105 version 0.7.1:
 106
 107   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
 108   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
 109     N. Oleynik)
 110   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
 111   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
 112   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
 113   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
 114   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
 115   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
 116
 117 version 0.7.0:
 118
 119   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
 120   - user mode networking bug fix
 121   - undocumented FPU ops support
 122   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
 123   - 'pidfile' option
 124   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
 125   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
 126   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
 127   - added generic 64 bit target support
 128   - x86_64 target support
 129   - initial APIC support
 130   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
 131   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
 132   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
 133   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
 134   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
 135   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
 136   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
 137   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
 138   - Samba 3 support
 139   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 140   - generic FPU emulation code
 141   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
 142
 143 version 0.6.1:
 144
 145   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 146   - Virtual console support
 147   - Better monitor line edition
 148   - New block device layer
 149   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
 150     transparent decompression
 151   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
 152   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
 153   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
 154   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
 155   - Support for not executable data sections
 156   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
 157   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
 158     Wormley)
 159   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
 160     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 161   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 162   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 163   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 164   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 165   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 166   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 167     the virtual consoles.
 168   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 169   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 170   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 171   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 172   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 173   - VGA font change fix
 174   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 175
 176 version 0.6.0:
 177
 178   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 179   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 180   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 181   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 182   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 183   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 184   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 185   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 186   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 187   - PCI support
 188   - NE2K PCI support
 189   - dummy VGA PCI support
 190   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 191   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 192   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 193   - added '-localtime' option
 194   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 195   - APM and system shutdown support
 196   - Fixed system reset
 197   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 198   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 199   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 200   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 201   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 202
 203 version 0.5.5:
 204
 205   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 206   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 207   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 208   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 209   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 210   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 211   - FDC fixes for Win98
 212
 213 version 0.5.4:
 214
 215   - qemu-fast fixes
 216   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 217   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 218   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 219   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 220   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 221   - User mode network stack
 222   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 223   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 224
 225 version 0.5.3:
 226
 227   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 228   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 229   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 230   - CPU interrupt fixes
 231   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 232   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 233   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 234   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 235   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 236     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 237   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 238   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 239   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 240   - graphical x86 linux loader
 241   - command line monitor
 242   - generic removable device support
 243   - support of CD-ROM change
 244   - multiple network interface support
 245   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 246   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 247   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 248   - VM save/restore commands
 249   - new timer API
 250   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 251   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 252
 253 version 0.5.2:
 254
 255   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 256   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 257     switching tasks
 258   - improved qemu-fast speed
 259   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 260     softmmu mode).
 261   - fixed IO checking
 262   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 263   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 264   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 265   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 266   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 267     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 268   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 269   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 270   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 271   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 272   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 273   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 274   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 275   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 276   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 277
 278 version 0.5.1:
 279
 280   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 281   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 282   - A20 support
 283   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 284   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 285   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 286   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 287   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 288   - Full task switching/task gate support
 289   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 290   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 291   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 292
 293 version 0.5.0:
 294
 295   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 296   - graphical display with SDL
 297   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 298   - popw (%esp) fix
 299   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 300   - added real mode support
 301   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 302   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 303   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 304   - multi-target build
 305   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 306   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 307   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 308   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 309   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 310   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 311   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 312   - added man page
 313   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 314
 315 version 0.4.3:
 316
 317   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 318   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 319   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 320   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 321
 322 version 0.4.2:
 323
 324  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 325  - IDE emulation support
 326  - initial GDB stub support
 327  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 328  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 329  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 330
 331 version 0.4.1:
 332
 333  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 334  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 335  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 336  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 337
 338 version 0.4:
 339
 340  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 341  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 342  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 343  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 344  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 345
 346 version 0.3:
 347
 348  - initial support for ARM emulation
 349  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 350  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 351  - initial ARM port
 352  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 353  - generic ioctl number conversion
 354  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 355
 356 version 0.2:
 357
 358  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 359  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 360  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 361  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 362  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 363  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 364  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 365  - added HLT instruction
 366  - LRET instruction fix.
 367  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 368  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 369  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 370  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 371  - self-modifying code support
 372  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 373  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 374  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 375  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 376  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 377
 378 version 0.1.6:
 379
 380  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 381    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 382  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 383  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 384    translation cache is not flushed)
 385  - RH9 fixes
 386
 387 version 0.1.5:
 388
 389  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 390  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 391  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 392  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 393  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 394
 395 version 0.1.4:
 396
 397  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 398    executables in wine).
 399  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 400  - added iret instruction.
 401  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 402
 403 version 0.1.3:
 404
 405  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 406  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 407  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 408  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 409  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 410  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 411  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 412  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 413  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 414  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 415  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 416  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 417  - poll() fix
 418
 419 version 0.1.2:
 420
 421  - compile fixes
 422  - xlat instruction
 423  - xchg instruction memory lock
 424  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 425    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 426    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 427
 428 version 0.1.1:
 429
 430  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 431  - added -s and -L options
 432  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 433  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 434
 435 version 0.1:
 436
 437  - initial public release.