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