version 0.8.3: - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images - Async file I/O API - New qcow2 disk image format - Support of multiple VM snapshots - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support version 0.8.2: - ACPI support - PC VGA BIOS fixes - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl) - VNC server fixes - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger) - Solaris/SPARC host support (Ben Taylor) - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel) - USB updates (Paul Brook) - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel) - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio) - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko) - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis) - Support for variable frequency host CPUs - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer) - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc) version 0.8.1: - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori) - win32 host serial support (Kazu) - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke) - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe) - SSE3 support - Solaris port (Ben Taylor) - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu) - VNC server (Anthony Liguori) - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.) - USB fixes - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook) version 0.8.0: - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s cpu (Paul Brook) - SMP support - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg) - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg) - DirectSound driver (malc) - ALSA audio driver (malc) - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc) - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc) - Initial USB support - Linux host serial port access - Linux host low level parallel port access - New network emulation code supporting VLANs. - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz) - NX bit support - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl) - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support (Johannes Schindelin) version 0.7.2: - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit) - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism. - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle) - better user net performances version 0.7.1: - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin) - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir N. Oleynik) - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara) - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl) - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer) - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle) - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne) - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara) version 0.7.0: - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection - user mode networking bug fix - undocumented FPU ops support - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes - 'pidfile' option - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin) - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin) - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek) - added generic 64 bit target support - x86_64 target support - initial APIC support - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere) - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl) - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl) - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook) - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook) - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook) - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook) - Samba 3 support - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont) - generic FPU emulation code - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi) version 0.6.1: - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont) - Virtual console support - Better monitor line edition - New block device layer - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and transparent decompression - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested) - Support for up to 4 serial ports - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm) - Port redirection support in user mode networking - Support for not executable data sections - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin) - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve Wormley) - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2) - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone) - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl) - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows. - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin) - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to the virtual consoles. - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert) - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell) - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell) - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc) - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi) - VGA font change fix - VGA read-only CRTC register fix version 0.6.0: - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix) - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot) - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto) - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere) - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell) - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix) - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix) - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images - PCI support - NE2K PCI support - dummy VGA PCI support - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell) - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI) - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug) - added '-localtime' option - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu)) - APM and system shutdown support - Fixed system reset - Support for other PC BIOSes - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer) - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86) - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB version 0.5.5: - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc) - VGA support on PowerPC PREP - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci) - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug) - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug) - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht) - FDC fixes for Win98 version 0.5.4: - qemu-fast fixes - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell) - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell) - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers) - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell) - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer) - User mode network stack - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI) - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug) version 0.5.3: - added Bochs VESA VBE support - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix) - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe) - CPU interrupt fixes - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install) - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install) - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster) - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht) - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast) - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras) - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix) - graphical x86 linux loader - command line monitor - generic removable device support - support of CD-ROM change - multiple network interface support - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne) - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix) - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot) - VM save/restore commands - new timer API - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates) - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu) version 0.5.2: - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing) - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when switching tasks - improved qemu-fast speed - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in softmmu mode). - fixed IO checking - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD) - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix) - added ROM memory support (win98 boot) - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically when launching executables for the supported target CPUs. - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer) - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer) - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer) - fixed PTE dirty bit handling - fixed xadd same reg bug - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness - access to virtual memory in gdb stub - task gate and NT flag fixes - eflags optimisation fix for string operations version 0.5.1: - float access fixes when using soft mmu - PC emulation support on PowerPC - A20 support - IDE CD-ROM emulation - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht) - SB16 emulation (malc) - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3 - Port I/Os use TSS io map - Full task switching/task gate support - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer) - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work) version 0.5.0: - full hardware level VGA emulation - graphical display with SDL - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation - popw (%esp) fix - mov to/from segment data width fix - added real mode support - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky) - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os - multi-target build - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn - correct single stepping thru string operations - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg) - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell) - automatic IDE geometry detection - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}. - added man page - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes. version 0.4.3: - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction. - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix) - sparc and Alpha host fixes - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched. version 0.4.2: - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl) - IDE emulation support - initial GDB stub support - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell) - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images - SMP kernels can at least be booted version 0.4.1: - more accurate timer support in vl. - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl. - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test. - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl. version 0.4: - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap() - fixed popl (%esp) case - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command. version 0.3: - initial support for ARM emulation - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions - added FPU register save in signal emulation - initial ARM port - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test - generic ioctl number conversion - fixed ioctl type conversion version 0.2: - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell) - flock support (Rusty Russell) - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell) - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell) - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner) - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson) - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller) - added HLT instruction - LRET instruction fix. - added GPF generation for I/Os. - added INT3 and TF flag support. - SHL instruction C flag fix. - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB - self-modifying code support - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs) - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases) - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation - faster segment load in vm86 mode - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation) version 0.1.6: - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell). - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan) - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the translation cache is not flushed) - RH9 fixes version 0.1.5: - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell) - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner) - removed bfd.h dependancy - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC. - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC). version 0.1.4: - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit executables in wine). - fixed push/pop fs/gs - added iret instruction. - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl. version 0.1.3: - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand) - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand) - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand) - more accurate pushf/popf emulation - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example). - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations - poll() fix version 0.1.2: - compile fixes - xlat instruction - xchg instruction memory lock - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html). version 0.1.1: - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes - added -s and -L options - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents. version 0.1: - initial public release.