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