Changelog

   1 version 0.10.2:
   2
   3   - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori)
   4   - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa)
   5   - live migration: improve error propogation (Glauber Costa)
   6   - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright)
   7   - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost)
   8   - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake)
   9   - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell)
  10   - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno)
  11   - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka)
  12   - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost)
  13   - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau)
  14   - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber)
  15   - fix VGA regression (malc)
  16
  17 version 0.10.1:
  18
  19   - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson)
  20   - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug)
  21     (Marcelo Tosatti)
  22   - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info).  This series of changes added
  23     a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori)
  24   - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno)
  25   - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori)
  26   - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request.  When using TCG and a dynticks
  27     host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite
  28     loop (Aurelien Jarno)
  29   - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka)
  30   - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka)
  31   - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka)
  32   - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka)
  33   - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka)
  34   - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka)
  35   - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel)
  36   - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation
  37     (Ryan Harper)
  38
  39 version 0.10.0:
  40
  41   - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
  42   - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
  43   - BSD userspace emulation
  44   - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
  45   - GDB XML register description support
  46   - Intel e1000 emulation
  47   - HPET emulation
  48   - VirtIO paravirtual device support
  49   - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
  50   - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
  51   - PCI hotplug support
  52   - Live migration and new save/restore formats
  53   - Curses display support
  54   - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
  55   - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
  56   - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
  57   - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
  58   - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
  59   - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
  60   - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
  61   - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  62   - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
  63   - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
  64   - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
  65
  66 version 0.9.1:
  67
  68   - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
  69   - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
  70   - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
  71   - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
  72   - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
  73   - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
  74   - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
  75   - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  76   - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
  77   - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
  78   - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
  79   - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
  80   - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
  81   - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
  82   - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
  83   - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
  84   - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
  85   - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
  86   - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  87   - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
  88   - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
  89   - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
  90   - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  91
  92 version 0.9.0:
  93
  94   - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
  95   - Async file I/O API
  96   - New qcow2 disk image format
  97   - Support of multiple VM snapshots
  98   - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
  99   - SMM support
 100   - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
 101   - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
 102   - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
 103   - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 104   - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
 105   - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
 106   - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
 107   - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
 108   - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
 109
 110 version 0.8.2:
 111
 112   - ACPI support
 113   - PC VGA BIOS fixes
 114   - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
 115   - VNC server fixes
 116   - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
 117   - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
 118   - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
 119   - USB updates (Paul Brook)
 120   - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
 121   - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
 122   - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
 123   - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
 124   - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
 125   - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
 126   - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
 127   - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
 128
 129 version 0.8.1:
 130
 131   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
 132   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
 133   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
 134   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
 135   - SSE3 support
 136   - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
 137   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
 138   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
 139   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
 140   - USB fixes
 141   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
 142
 143 version 0.8.0:
 144
 145   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
 146     cpu (Paul Brook)
 147   - SMP support
 148   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
 149   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
 150   - DirectSound driver (malc)
 151   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
 152   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
 153   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
 154   - Initial USB support
 155   - Linux host serial port access
 156   - Linux host low level parallel port access
 157   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
 158   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
 159   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
 160   - NX bit support
 161   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
 162   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
 163     (Johannes Schindelin)
 164
 165 version 0.7.2:
 166
 167   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
 168   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
 169   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
 170   - better user net performances
 171
 172 version 0.7.1:
 173
 174   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
 175   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
 176     N. Oleynik)
 177   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
 178   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
 179   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
 180   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
 181   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
 182   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
 183
 184 version 0.7.0:
 185
 186   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
 187   - user mode networking bug fix
 188   - undocumented FPU ops support
 189   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
 190   - 'pidfile' option
 191   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
 192   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
 193   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
 194   - added generic 64 bit target support
 195   - x86_64 target support
 196   - initial APIC support
 197   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
 198   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
 199   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
 200   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
 201   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
 202   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
 203   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
 204   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
 205   - Samba 3 support
 206   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 207   - generic FPU emulation code
 208   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
 209
 210 version 0.6.1:
 211
 212   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 213   - Virtual console support
 214   - Better monitor line edition
 215   - New block device layer
 216   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
 217     transparent decompression
 218   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
 219   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
 220   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
 221   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
 222   - Support for not executable data sections
 223   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
 224   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
 225     Wormley)
 226   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
 227     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 228   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 229   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 230   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 231   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 232   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 233   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 234     the virtual consoles.
 235   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 236   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 237   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 238   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 239   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 240   - VGA font change fix
 241   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 242
 243 version 0.6.0:
 244
 245   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 246   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 247   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 248   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 249   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 250   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 251   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 252   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 253   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 254   - PCI support
 255   - NE2K PCI support
 256   - dummy VGA PCI support
 257   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 258   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 259   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 260   - added '-localtime' option
 261   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 262   - APM and system shutdown support
 263   - Fixed system reset
 264   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 265   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 266   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 267   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 268   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 269
 270 version 0.5.5:
 271
 272   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 273   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 274   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 275   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 276   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 277   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 278   - FDC fixes for Win98
 279
 280 version 0.5.4:
 281
 282   - qemu-fast fixes
 283   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 284   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 285   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 286   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 287   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 288   - User mode network stack
 289   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 290   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 291
 292 version 0.5.3:
 293
 294   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 295   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 296   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 297   - CPU interrupt fixes
 298   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 299   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 300   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 301   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 302   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 303     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 304   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 305   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 306   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 307   - graphical x86 linux loader
 308   - command line monitor
 309   - generic removable device support
 310   - support of CD-ROM change
 311   - multiple network interface support
 312   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 313   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 314   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 315   - VM save/restore commands
 316   - new timer API
 317   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 318   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 319
 320 version 0.5.2:
 321
 322   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 323   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 324     switching tasks
 325   - improved qemu-fast speed
 326   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 327     softmmu mode).
 328   - fixed IO checking
 329   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 330   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 331   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 332   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 333   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 334     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 335   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 336   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 337   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 338   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 339   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 340   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 341   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 342   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 343   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 344
 345 version 0.5.1:
 346
 347   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 348   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 349   - A20 support
 350   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 351   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 352   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 353   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 354   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 355   - Full task switching/task gate support
 356   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 357   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 358   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 359
 360 version 0.5.0:
 361
 362   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 363   - graphical display with SDL
 364   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 365   - popw (%esp) fix
 366   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 367   - added real mode support
 368   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 369   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 370   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 371   - multi-target build
 372   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 373   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 374   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 375   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 376   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 377   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 378   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 379   - added man page
 380   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 381
 382 version 0.4.3:
 383
 384   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 385   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 386   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 387   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 388
 389 version 0.4.2:
 390
 391  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 392  - IDE emulation support
 393  - initial GDB stub support
 394  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 395  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 396  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 397
 398 version 0.4.1:
 399
 400  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 401  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 402  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 403  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 404
 405 version 0.4:
 406
 407  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 408  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 409  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 410  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 411  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 412
 413 version 0.3:
 414
 415  - initial support for ARM emulation
 416  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 417  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 418  - initial ARM port
 419  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 420  - generic ioctl number conversion
 421  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 422
 423 version 0.2:
 424
 425  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 426  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 427  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 428  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 429  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 430  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 431  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 432  - added HLT instruction
 433  - LRET instruction fix.
 434  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 435  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 436  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 437  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 438  - self-modifying code support
 439  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 440  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 441  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 442  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 443  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 444
 445 version 0.1.6:
 446
 447  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 448    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 449  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 450  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 451    translation cache is not flushed)
 452  - RH9 fixes
 453
 454 version 0.1.5:
 455
 456  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 457  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 458  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 459  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 460  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 461
 462 version 0.1.4:
 463
 464  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 465    executables in wine).
 466  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 467  - added iret instruction.
 468  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 469
 470 version 0.1.3:
 471
 472  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 473  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 474  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 475  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 476  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 477  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 478  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 479  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 480  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 481  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 482  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 483  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 484  - poll() fix
 485
 486 version 0.1.2:
 487
 488  - compile fixes
 489  - xlat instruction
 490  - xchg instruction memory lock
 491  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 492    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 493    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 494
 495 version 0.1.1:
 496
 497  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 498  - added -s and -L options
 499  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 500  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 501
 502 version 0.1:
 503
 504  - initial public release.