| version 0.8.3: |
| |
| - 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 |
| |
| 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 (Ben Taylor) |
| - 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) |
| - win32 host serial support (Kazu) |
| - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke) |
| - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe) |
| - SSE3 support |
| - Solaris port (Ben Taylor) |
| - 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: |
| |
| - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s |
| cpu (Paul Brook) |
| - SMP support |
| - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg) |
| - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg) |
| - DirectSound driver (malc) |
| - ALSA audio driver (malc) |
| - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc) |
| - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc) |
| - Initial USB support |
| - Linux host serial port access |
| - Linux host low level parallel port access |
| - New network emulation code supporting VLANs. |
| - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation |
| - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz) |
| - NX bit support |
| - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl) |
| - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support |
| (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) |
| - better user net performances |
| |
| version 0.7.1: |
| |
| - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin) |
| - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir |
| N. Oleynik) |
| - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara) |
| - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl) |
| - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer) |
| - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle) |
| - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne) |
| - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara) |
| |
| version 0.7.0: |
| |
| - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection |
| - user mode networking bug fix |
| - undocumented FPU ops support |
| - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes |
| - 'pidfile' option |
| - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin) |
| - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin) |
| - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek) |
| - added generic 64 bit target support |
| - x86_64 target support |
| - initial APIC support |
| - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support |
| - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere) |
| - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl) |
| - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl) |
| - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook) |
| - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook) |
| - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook) |
| - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook) |
| - Samba 3 support |
| - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont) |
| - generic FPU emulation code |
| - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi) |
| |
| version 0.6.1: |
| |
| - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont) |
| - Virtual console support |
| - Better monitor line edition |
| - 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) |
| - Support for up to 4 serial ports |
| - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm) |
| - Port redirection support in user mode networking |
| - Support for not executable data sections |
| - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin) |
| - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve |
| Wormley) |
| - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any |
| LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2) |
| - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone) |
| - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl) |
| - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows. |
| - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options |
| - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin) |
| - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to |
| the virtual consoles. |
| - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert) |
| - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell) |
| - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell) |
| - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc) |
| - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi) |
| - VGA font change fix |
| - VGA read-only CRTC register fix |
| |
| version 0.6.0: |
| |
| - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix) |
| - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot) |
| - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto) |
| - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere) |
| - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell) |
| - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix) |
| - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix) |
| - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix |
| - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images |
| - PCI support |
| - NE2K PCI support |
| - dummy VGA PCI support |
| - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell) |
| - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI) |
| - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug) |
| - added '-localtime' option |
| - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu)) |
| - APM and system shutdown support |
| - Fixed system reset |
| - Support for other PC BIOSes |
| - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation |
| - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer) |
| - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86) |
| - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB |
| |
| version 0.5.5: |
| |
| - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc) |
| - VGA support on PowerPC PREP |
| - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci) |
| - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug) |
| - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug) |
| - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht) |
| - 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) |
| - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers) |
| - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell) |
| - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer) |
| - User mode network stack |
| - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI) |
| - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug) |
| |
| version 0.5.3: |
| |
| - added Bochs VESA VBE support |
| - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix) |
| - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe) |
| - CPU interrupt fixes |
| - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install) |
| - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install) |
| - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster) |
| - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht) |
| - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance |
| in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast) |
| - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras) |
| - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation |
| - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix) |
| - graphical x86 linux loader |
| - 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) |
| - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot) |
| - VM save/restore commands |
| - new timer API |
| - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates) |
| - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu) |
| |
| version 0.5.2: |
| |
| - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing) |
| - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when |
| switching tasks |
| - improved qemu-fast speed |
| - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in |
| softmmu mode). |
| - fixed IO checking |
| - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD) |
| - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix) |
| - added ROM memory support (win98 boot) |
| - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception |
| - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically |
| when launching executables for the supported target CPUs. |
| - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer) |
| - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer) |
| - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer) |
| - fixed PTE dirty bit handling |
| - fixed xadd same reg bug |
| - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness |
| - access to virtual memory in gdb stub |
| - task gate and NT flag fixes |
| - eflags optimisation fix for string operations |
| |
| version 0.5.1: |
| |
| - float access fixes when using soft mmu |
| - PC emulation support on PowerPC |
| - A20 support |
| - IDE CD-ROM emulation |
| - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht) |
| - SB16 emulation (malc) |
| - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3 |
| - Port I/Os use TSS io map |
| - Full task switching/task gate support |
| - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx |
| - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer) |
| - 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 |
| - popw (%esp) fix |
| - mov to/from segment data width fix |
| - added real mode support |
| - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu |
| - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky) |
| - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os |
| - 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 |
| - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg) |
| - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell) |
| - automatic IDE geometry detection |
| - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}. |
| - added man page |
| - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes. |
| |
| version 0.4.3: |
| |
| - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction. |
| - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix) |
| - sparc and Alpha host fixes |
| - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched. |
| |
| version 0.4.2: |
| |
| - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl) |
| - IDE emulation support |
| - initial GDB stub support |
| - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell) |
| - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images |
| - 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. |
| - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl. |
| |
| version 0.4: |
| |
| - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation |
| - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation |
| - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap() |
| - fixed popl (%esp) case |
| - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command. |
| |
| version 0.3: |
| |
| - initial support for ARM emulation |
| - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions |
| - added FPU register save in signal emulation |
| - initial ARM port |
| - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test |
| - generic ioctl number conversion |
| - fixed ioctl type conversion |
| |
| version 0.2: |
| |
| - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell) |
| - flock support (Rusty Russell) |
| - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell) |
| - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell) |
| - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner) |
| - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson) |
| - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller) |
| - added HLT instruction |
| - LRET instruction fix. |
| - added GPF generation for I/Os. |
| - added INT3 and TF flag support. |
| - SHL instruction C flag fix. |
| - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB |
| - self-modifying code support |
| - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs) |
| - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases) |
| - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation |
| - faster segment load in vm86 mode |
| - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation) |
| |
| version 0.1.6: |
| |
| - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched |
| ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell). |
| - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan) |
| - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the |
| translation cache is not flushed) |
| - RH9 fixes |
| |
| version 0.1.5: |
| |
| - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell) |
| - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner) |
| - removed bfd.h dependancy |
| - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC. |
| - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC). |
| |
| version 0.1.4: |
| |
| - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit |
| executables in wine). |
| - fixed push/pop fs/gs |
| - added iret instruction. |
| - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl. |
| |
| version 0.1.3: |
| |
| - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand) |
| - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand) |
| - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) |
| - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) |
| - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) |
| - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) |
| - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) |
| - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand) |
| - more accurate pushf/popf emulation |
| - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example). |
| - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions |
| - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations |
| - poll() fix |
| |
| version 0.1.2: |
| |
| - compile fixes |
| - xlat instruction |
| - xchg instruction memory lock |
| - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte |
| DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram |
| Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html). |
| |
| version 0.1.1: |
| |
| - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes |
| - added -s and -L options |
| - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine |
| - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents. |
| |
| version 0.1: |
| |
| - initial public release. |
