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