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