+This file documents changes for QEMU releases 0.12 and earlier.
+For changelog information for later releases, see
+https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog or look at the git history for
+more detailed information.
+
+
+version 0.12.0:
+
+ - Update to SeaBIOS 0.5.0
+ - e1000: fix device link status in Linux (Anthony Liguori)
+ - monitor: fix QMP for balloon command (Luiz Capitulino)
+ - QMP: Return an empty dict by default (Luiz Capitulino)
+ - QMP: Only handle converted commands (Luiz Capitulino)
+ - pci: support PCI based option rom loading (Gerd Hoffman/Anthony Liguori)
+ - Fix backcompat for hotplug of SCSI controllers (Daniel P. Berrange)
+ - fdc: fix migration from 0.11 (Juan Quintela)
+ - vmware-vga: fix segv on cursor resize. (Dave Airlie)
+ - vmware-vga: various fixes (Dave Airlie/Anthony Liguori)
+ - qdev: improve property error reporting. (Gerd Hoffmann)
+ - fix vga names in default_list (Gerd Hoffmann)
+ - usb-host: check mon before using it. (Gerd Hoffmann)
+ - usb-net: use qdev for -usbdevice (Gerd Hoffmann)
+ - monitor: Catch printing to non-existent monitor (Luiz Capitulino)
+ - Avoid permanently disabled QEMU monitor when UNIX migration fails (Daniel P. Berrange)
+ - Fix loading of ELF multiboot kernels (Kevin Wolf)
+ - qemu-io: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf)
+ - Fix thinko in linuxboot.S (Paolo Bonzini)
+ - target-i386: Fix evaluation of DR7 register (Jan Kiszka)
+ - vnc: hextile: do not generate ForegroundSpecified and SubrectsColoured tiles (Anthony Liguori)
+ - S390: Bail out without KVM (Alexander Graf)
+ - S390: Don't tell guest we're updating config space (Alexander Graf)
+ - target-s390: Fail on unknown instructions (Alexander Graf)
+ - osdep: Fix runtime failure on older Linux kernels (Andre Przywara)
+ - Fix a make -j race (Juergen Lock)
+ - target-alpha: Fix generic ctz64. (Richard Henderson)
+ - s390: Fix buggy assignment (Stefan Weil)
+ - target-mips: fix user-mode emulation startup (Nathan Froyd)
+ - target-i386: Update CPUID feature set for TCG (Andre Przywara)
+ - s390: fix build on 32 bit host (Michael S. Tsirkin)
+
+version 0.12.0-rc2:
+
+ - v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa)
+ - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino)
+ - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann)
+ - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann)
+ - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann)
+ - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann)
+ - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd Hoffmann)
+ - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman)
+ - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann)
+ - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann)
+ - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann)
+ - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties. (Gerd Hoffmann)
+ - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka)
+ - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster)
+ - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov)
+ - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin)
+ - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie)
+ - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori)
+ - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook)
+ - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin)
+ - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus Armbruster)
+ - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster)
+ - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus Armbruster)
+ - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino)
+ - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino)
+ - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
+ - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin)
+ - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin)
+ - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
+ - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
+ - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara)
+ - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka)
+ - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno)
+
+version 0.10.2:
+
+ - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori)
+ - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa)
+ - live migration: improve error propagation (Glauber Costa)
+ - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright)
+ - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost)
+ - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake)
+ - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell)
+ - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno)
+ - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka)
+ - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost)
+ - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau)
+ - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber)
+ - fix VGA regression (malc)
+
+version 0.10.1:
+
+ - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson)
+ - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug)
+ (Marcelo Tosatti)
+ - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info). This series of changes added
+ a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori)
+ - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno)
+ - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori)
+ - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request. When using TCG and a dynticks
+ host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite
+ loop (Aurelien Jarno)
+ - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka)
+ - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka)
+ - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka)
+ - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka)
+ - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka)
+ - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka)
+ - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel)
+ - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation
+ (Ryan Harper)
+
+version 0.10.0:
+
+ - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
+ - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
+ - BSD userspace emulation
+ - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
+ - GDB XML register description support
+ - Intel e1000 emulation
+ - HPET emulation
+ - VirtIO paravirtual device support
+ - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
+ - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
+ - PCI hotplug support
+ - Live migration and new save/restore formats
+ - Curses display support
+ - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
+ - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
+ - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
+ - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
+ - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
+ - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
+ - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
+ - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
+ - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
+ - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
+ - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
+
+version 0.9.1:
+
+ - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
+ - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
+ - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
+ - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
+ - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
+ - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
+ - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
+ - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
+ - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
+ - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
+ - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
+ - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
+ - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
+ - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
+ - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
+ - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
+ - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
+ - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
+ - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
+ - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
+ - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
+ - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
+ - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
+
+version 0.9.0:
+
+ - 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
+ - SMM support
+ - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
+ - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
+ - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
+ - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
+ - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
+ - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
+ - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
+ - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
+ - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
+
+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 (Juergen Keil)
+ - 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 (Juergen Keil)
+ - 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 privilege 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 through 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 dependency
+ - 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:
- added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
- added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
- poll() fix
-
+
version 0.1.2:
- compile fixes
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