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