Changelog

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