Changelog

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