+This file documents changes for QEMU releases 0.12 and earlier.
+For changelog information for later releases, see
+http://wiki.qemu-project.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)
- PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
- IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
- SSE3 support
- - Solaris port (Ben Taylor)
+ - 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:
(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)
- Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
- Virtual console support
- Better monitor line edition
- - New block device layer
+ - 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)
- 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)
- added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
- fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
- graphical x86 linux loader
- - command line monitor
+ - 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 priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
+ - lret to outer privilege fix (OS/2 install fix)
- task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
- VM save/restore commands
- new timer API
- eflags optimisation fix for string operations
version 0.5.1:
-
+
- float access fixes when using soft mmu
- PC emulation support on PowerPC
- A20 support
- 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
- 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 thru string operations
+ - correct single stepping through string operations
- preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
- tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
- automatic IDE geometry detection
- 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.
- ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
- first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
- - removed bfd.h dependancy
+ - removed bfd.h dependency
- fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
- fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
- 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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