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