Changelog

   1 version 0.10.0:
   2
   3   - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
   4   - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
   5   - BSD userspace emulation
   6   - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
   7   - GDB XML register description support
   8   - Intel e1000 emulation
   9   - HPET emulation
  10   - VirtIO paravirtual device support
  11   - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
  12   - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
  13   - PCI hotplug support
  14   - Live migration and new save/restore formats
  15   - Curses display support
  16   - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
  17   - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
  18   - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
  19   - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
  20   - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
  21   - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
  22   - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
  23   - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  24   - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
  25   - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
  26   - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
  27
  28 version 0.9.1:
  29
  30   - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
  31   - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
  32   - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
  33   - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
  34   - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
  35   - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
  36   - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
  37   - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  38   - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
  39   - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
  40   - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
  41   - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
  42   - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
  43   - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
  44   - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
  45   - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
  46   - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
  47   - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
  48   - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  49   - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
  50   - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
  51   - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
  52   - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  53
  54 version 0.9.0:
  55
  56   - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
  57   - Async file I/O API
  58   - New qcow2 disk image format
  59   - Support of multiple VM snapshots
  60   - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
  61   - SMM support
  62   - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
  63   - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
  64   - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
  65   - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  66   - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
  67   - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
  68   - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
  69   - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
  70   - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
  71
  72 version 0.8.2:
  73
  74   - ACPI support
  75   - PC VGA BIOS fixes
  76   - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
  77   - VNC server fixes
  78   - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
  79   - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
  80   - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
  81   - USB updates (Paul Brook)
  82   - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
  83   - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
  84   - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
  85   - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
  86   - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
  87   - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
  88   - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
  89   - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
  90
  91 version 0.8.1:
  92
  93   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
  94   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
  95   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
  96   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
  97   - SSE3 support
  98   - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
  99   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
 100   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
 101   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
 102   - USB fixes
 103   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
 104
 105 version 0.8.0:
 106
 107   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
 108     cpu (Paul Brook)
 109   - SMP support
 110   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
 111   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
 112   - DirectSound driver (malc)
 113   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
 114   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
 115   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
 116   - Initial USB support
 117   - Linux host serial port access
 118   - Linux host low level parallel port access
 119   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
 120   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
 121   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
 122   - NX bit support
 123   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
 124   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
 125     (Johannes Schindelin)
 126
 127 version 0.7.2:
 128
 129   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
 130   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
 131   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
 132   - better user net performances
 133
 134 version 0.7.1:
 135
 136   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
 137   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
 138     N. Oleynik)
 139   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
 140   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
 141   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
 142   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
 143   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
 144   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
 145
 146 version 0.7.0:
 147
 148   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
 149   - user mode networking bug fix
 150   - undocumented FPU ops support
 151   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
 152   - 'pidfile' option
 153   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
 154   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
 155   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
 156   - added generic 64 bit target support
 157   - x86_64 target support
 158   - initial APIC support
 159   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
 160   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
 161   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
 162   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
 163   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
 164   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
 165   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
 166   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
 167   - Samba 3 support
 168   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 169   - generic FPU emulation code
 170   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
 171
 172 version 0.6.1:
 173
 174   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 175   - Virtual console support
 176   - Better monitor line edition
 177   - New block device layer
 178   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
 179     transparent decompression
 180   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
 181   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
 182   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
 183   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
 184   - Support for not executable data sections
 185   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
 186   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
 187     Wormley)
 188   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
 189     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 190   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 191   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 192   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 193   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 194   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 195   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 196     the virtual consoles.
 197   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 198   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 199   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 200   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 201   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 202   - VGA font change fix
 203   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 204
 205 version 0.6.0:
 206
 207   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 208   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 209   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 210   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 211   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 212   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 213   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 214   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 215   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 216   - PCI support
 217   - NE2K PCI support
 218   - dummy VGA PCI support
 219   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 220   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 221   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 222   - added '-localtime' option
 223   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 224   - APM and system shutdown support
 225   - Fixed system reset
 226   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 227   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 228   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 229   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 230   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 231
 232 version 0.5.5:
 233
 234   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 235   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 236   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 237   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 238   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 239   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 240   - FDC fixes for Win98
 241
 242 version 0.5.4:
 243
 244   - qemu-fast fixes
 245   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 246   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 247   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 248   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 249   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 250   - User mode network stack
 251   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 252   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 253
 254 version 0.5.3:
 255
 256   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 257   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 258   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 259   - CPU interrupt fixes
 260   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 261   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 262   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 263   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 264   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 265     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 266   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 267   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 268   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 269   - graphical x86 linux loader
 270   - command line monitor
 271   - generic removable device support
 272   - support of CD-ROM change
 273   - multiple network interface support
 274   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 275   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 276   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 277   - VM save/restore commands
 278   - new timer API
 279   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 280   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 281
 282 version 0.5.2:
 283
 284   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 285   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 286     switching tasks
 287   - improved qemu-fast speed
 288   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 289     softmmu mode).
 290   - fixed IO checking
 291   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 292   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 293   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 294   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 295   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 296     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 297   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 298   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 299   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 300   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 301   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 302   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 303   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 304   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 305   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 306
 307 version 0.5.1:
 308
 309   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 310   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 311   - A20 support
 312   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 313   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 314   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 315   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 316   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 317   - Full task switching/task gate support
 318   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 319   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 320   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 321
 322 version 0.5.0:
 323
 324   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 325   - graphical display with SDL
 326   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 327   - popw (%esp) fix
 328   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 329   - added real mode support
 330   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 331   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 332   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 333   - multi-target build
 334   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 335   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 336   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 337   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 338   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 339   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 340   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 341   - added man page
 342   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 343
 344 version 0.4.3:
 345
 346   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 347   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 348   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 349   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 350
 351 version 0.4.2:
 352
 353  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 354  - IDE emulation support
 355  - initial GDB stub support
 356  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 357  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 358  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 359
 360 version 0.4.1:
 361
 362  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 363  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 364  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 365  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 366
 367 version 0.4:
 368
 369  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 370  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 371  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 372  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 373  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 374
 375 version 0.3:
 376
 377  - initial support for ARM emulation
 378  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 379  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 380  - initial ARM port
 381  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 382  - generic ioctl number conversion
 383  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 384
 385 version 0.2:
 386
 387  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 388  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 389  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 390  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 391  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 392  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 393  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 394  - added HLT instruction
 395  - LRET instruction fix.
 396  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 397  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 398  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 399  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 400  - self-modifying code support
 401  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 402  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 403  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 404  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 405  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 406
 407 version 0.1.6:
 408
 409  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 410    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 411  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 412  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 413    translation cache is not flushed)
 414  - RH9 fixes
 415
 416 version 0.1.5:
 417
 418  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 419  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 420  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 421  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 422  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 423
 424 version 0.1.4:
 425
 426  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 427    executables in wine).
 428  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 429  - added iret instruction.
 430  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 431
 432 version 0.1.3:
 433
 434  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 435  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 436  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 437  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 438  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 439  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 440  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 441  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 442  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 443  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 444  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 445  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 446  - poll() fix
 447
 448 version 0.1.2:
 449
 450  - compile fixes
 451  - xlat instruction
 452  - xchg instruction memory lock
 453  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 454    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 455    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 456
 457 version 0.1.1:
 458
 459  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 460  - added -s and -L options
 461  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 462  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 463
 464 version 0.1:
 465
 466  - initial public release.