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1 | This file documents changes for QEMU releases 0.12 and earlier. | |
2 | For changelog information for later releases, see | |
3 | https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog or look at the git history for | |
4 | more detailed information. | |
5 | ||
6 | ||
7 | version 0.12.0: | |
8 | ||
9 | - Update to SeaBIOS 0.5.0 | |
10 | - e1000: fix device link status in Linux (Anthony Liguori) | |
11 | - monitor: fix QMP for balloon command (Luiz Capitulino) | |
12 | - QMP: Return an empty dict by default (Luiz Capitulino) | |
13 | - QMP: Only handle converted commands (Luiz Capitulino) | |
14 | - pci: support PCI based option rom loading (Gerd Hoffman/Anthony Liguori) | |
15 | - Fix backcompat for hotplug of SCSI controllers (Daniel P. Berrange) | |
16 | - fdc: fix migration from 0.11 (Juan Quintela) | |
17 | - vmware-vga: fix segv on cursor resize. (Dave Airlie) | |
18 | - vmware-vga: various fixes (Dave Airlie/Anthony Liguori) | |
19 | - qdev: improve property error reporting. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
20 | - fix vga names in default_list (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
21 | - usb-host: check mon before using it. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
22 | - usb-net: use qdev for -usbdevice (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
23 | - monitor: Catch printing to non-existent monitor (Luiz Capitulino) | |
24 | - Avoid permanently disabled QEMU monitor when UNIX migration fails (Daniel P. Berrange) | |
25 | - Fix loading of ELF multiboot kernels (Kevin Wolf) | |
26 | - qemu-io: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf) | |
27 | - Fix thinko in linuxboot.S (Paolo Bonzini) | |
28 | - target-i386: Fix evaluation of DR7 register (Jan Kiszka) | |
29 | - vnc: hextile: do not generate ForegroundSpecified and SubrectsColoured tiles (Anthony Liguori) | |
30 | - S390: Bail out without KVM (Alexander Graf) | |
31 | - S390: Don't tell guest we're updating config space (Alexander Graf) | |
32 | - target-s390: Fail on unknown instructions (Alexander Graf) | |
33 | - osdep: Fix runtime failure on older Linux kernels (Andre Przywara) | |
34 | - Fix a make -j race (Juergen Lock) | |
35 | - target-alpha: Fix generic ctz64. (Richard Henderson) | |
36 | - s390: Fix buggy assignment (Stefan Weil) | |
37 | - target-mips: fix user-mode emulation startup (Nathan Froyd) | |
38 | - target-i386: Update CPUID feature set for TCG (Andre Przywara) | |
39 | - s390: fix build on 32 bit host (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
40 | ||
41 | version 0.12.0-rc2: | |
42 | ||
43 | - v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa) | |
44 | - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino) | |
45 | - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
46 | - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
47 | - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
48 | - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
49 | - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
50 | - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman) | |
51 | - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
52 | - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
53 | - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
54 | - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties. (Gerd Hoffmann) | |
55 | - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka) | |
56 | - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster) | |
57 | - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov) | |
58 | - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
59 | - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie) | |
60 | - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori) | |
61 | - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook) | |
62 | - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
63 | - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus Armbruster) | |
64 | - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster) | |
65 | - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus Armbruster) | |
66 | - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino) | |
67 | - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino) | |
68 | - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
69 | - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
70 | - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
71 | - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
72 | - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin) | |
73 | - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara) | |
74 | - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka) | |
75 | - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno) | |
76 | ||
77 | version 0.10.2: | |
78 | ||
79 | - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori) | |
80 | - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa) | |
81 | - live migration: improve error propagation (Glauber Costa) | |
82 | - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright) | |
83 | - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost) | |
84 | - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake) | |
85 | - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell) | |
86 | - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno) | |
87 | - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka) | |
88 | - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost) | |
89 | - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau) | |
90 | - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber) | |
91 | - fix VGA regression (malc) | |
92 | ||
93 | version 0.10.1: | |
94 | ||
95 | - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson) | |
96 | - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug) | |
97 | (Marcelo Tosatti) | |
98 | - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info). This series of changes added | |
99 | a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori) | |
100 | - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno) | |
101 | - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori) | |
102 | - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request. When using TCG and a dynticks | |
103 | host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite | |
104 | loop (Aurelien Jarno) | |
105 | - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka) | |
106 | - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka) | |
107 | - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka) | |
108 | - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka) | |
109 | - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka) | |
110 | - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka) | |
111 | - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel) | |
112 | - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation | |
113 | (Ryan Harper) | |
114 | ||
115 | version 0.10.0: | |
116 | ||
117 | - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x) | |
118 | - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support | |
119 | - BSD userspace emulation | |
120 | - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support | |
121 | - GDB XML register description support | |
122 | - Intel e1000 emulation | |
123 | - HPET emulation | |
124 | - VirtIO paravirtual device support | |
125 | - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation | |
126 | - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation | |
127 | - PCI hotplug support | |
128 | - Live migration and new save/restore formats | |
129 | - Curses display support | |
130 | - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats | |
131 | - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS) | |
132 | - Multiple VNC clients are now supported | |
133 | - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC | |
134 | - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau) | |
135 | - Braille support (Samuel Thibault) | |
136 | - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka) | |
137 | - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski) | |
138 | - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve) | |
139 | - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz) | |
140 | - Many, many, bug fixes and new features | |
141 | ||
142 | version 0.9.1: | |
143 | ||
144 | - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu) | |
145 | - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong) | |
146 | - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel) | |
147 | - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau) | |
148 | - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau) | |
149 | - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif) | |
150 | - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer) | |
151 | - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski) | |
152 | - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook) | |
153 | - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm) | |
154 | - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer) | |
155 | - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer) | |
156 | - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi) | |
157 | - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf) | |
158 | - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias) | |
159 | - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl) | |
160 | - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer) | |
161 | - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh) | |
162 | - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski) | |
163 | - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery) | |
164 | - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell) | |
165 | - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster) | |
166 | - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski) | |
167 | ||
168 | version 0.9.0: | |
169 | ||
170 | - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images | |
171 | - Async file I/O API | |
172 | - New qcow2 disk image format | |
173 | - Support of multiple VM snapshots | |
174 | - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support | |
175 | - SMM support | |
176 | - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS | |
177 | - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer) | |
178 | - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil) | |
179 | - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont) | |
180 | - m68k user support (Paul Brook) | |
181 | - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes | |
182 | - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori) | |
183 | - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori) | |
184 | - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori) | |
185 | ||
186 | version 0.8.2: | |
187 | ||
188 | - ACPI support | |
189 | - PC VGA BIOS fixes | |
190 | - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl) | |
191 | - VNC server fixes | |
192 | - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger) | |
193 | - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil) | |
194 | - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel) | |
195 | - USB updates (Paul Brook) | |
196 | - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel) | |
197 | - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio) | |
198 | - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko) | |
199 | - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis) | |
200 | - Support for variable frequency host CPUs | |
201 | - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts | |
202 | - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
203 | - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc) | |
204 | ||
205 | version 0.8.1: | |
206 | ||
207 | - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori) | |
208 | - win32 host serial support (Kazu) | |
209 | - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke) | |
210 | - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe) | |
211 | - SSE3 support | |
212 | - Solaris port (Juergen Keil) | |
213 | - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu) | |
214 | - VNC server (Anthony Liguori) | |
215 | - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.) | |
216 | - USB fixes | |
217 | - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook) | |
218 | ||
219 | version 0.8.0: | |
220 | ||
221 | - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s | |
222 | cpu (Paul Brook) | |
223 | - SMP support | |
224 | - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg) | |
225 | - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg) | |
226 | - DirectSound driver (malc) | |
227 | - ALSA audio driver (malc) | |
228 | - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc) | |
229 | - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc) | |
230 | - Initial USB support | |
231 | - Linux host serial port access | |
232 | - Linux host low level parallel port access | |
233 | - New network emulation code supporting VLANs. | |
234 | - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation | |
235 | - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz) | |
236 | - NX bit support | |
237 | - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl) | |
238 | - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support | |
239 | (Johannes Schindelin) | |
240 | ||
241 | version 0.7.2: | |
242 | ||
243 | - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit) | |
244 | - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism. | |
245 | - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle) | |
246 | - better user net performances | |
247 | ||
248 | version 0.7.1: | |
249 | ||
250 | - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin) | |
251 | - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir | |
252 | N. Oleynik) | |
253 | - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara) | |
254 | - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl) | |
255 | - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer) | |
256 | - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle) | |
257 | - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne) | |
258 | - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara) | |
259 | ||
260 | version 0.7.0: | |
261 | ||
262 | - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection | |
263 | - user mode networking bug fix | |
264 | - undocumented FPU ops support | |
265 | - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes | |
266 | - 'pidfile' option | |
267 | - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin) | |
268 | - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin) | |
269 | - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek) | |
270 | - added generic 64 bit target support | |
271 | - x86_64 target support | |
272 | - initial APIC support | |
273 | - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support | |
274 | - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere) | |
275 | - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl) | |
276 | - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl) | |
277 | - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook) | |
278 | - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook) | |
279 | - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook) | |
280 | - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook) | |
281 | - Samba 3 support | |
282 | - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont) | |
283 | - generic FPU emulation code | |
284 | - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi) | |
285 | ||
286 | version 0.6.1: | |
287 | ||
288 | - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont) | |
289 | - Virtual console support | |
290 | - Better monitor line edition | |
291 | - New block device layer | |
292 | - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and | |
293 | transparent decompression | |
294 | - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested) | |
295 | - Support for up to 4 serial ports | |
296 | - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm) | |
297 | - Port redirection support in user mode networking | |
298 | - Support for not executable data sections | |
299 | - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin) | |
300 | - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve | |
301 | Wormley) | |
302 | - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any | |
303 | LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2) | |
304 | - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone) | |
305 | - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl) | |
306 | - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows. | |
307 | - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options | |
308 | - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin) | |
309 | - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to | |
310 | the virtual consoles. | |
311 | - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert) | |
312 | - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell) | |
313 | - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell) | |
314 | - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc) | |
315 | - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi) | |
316 | - VGA font change fix | |
317 | - VGA read-only CRTC register fix | |
318 | ||
319 | version 0.6.0: | |
320 | ||
321 | - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix) | |
322 | - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot) | |
323 | - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto) | |
324 | - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere) | |
325 | - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell) | |
326 | - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix) | |
327 | - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix) | |
328 | - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix | |
329 | - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images | |
330 | - PCI support | |
331 | - NE2K PCI support | |
332 | - dummy VGA PCI support | |
333 | - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell) | |
334 | - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI) | |
335 | - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug) | |
336 | - added '-localtime' option | |
337 | - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu)) | |
338 | - APM and system shutdown support | |
339 | - Fixed system reset | |
340 | - Support for other PC BIOSes | |
341 | - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation | |
342 | - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
343 | - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86) | |
344 | - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB | |
345 | ||
346 | version 0.5.5: | |
347 | ||
348 | - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc) | |
349 | - VGA support on PowerPC PREP | |
350 | - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci) | |
351 | - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug) | |
352 | - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug) | |
353 | - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht) | |
354 | - FDC fixes for Win98 | |
355 | ||
356 | version 0.5.4: | |
357 | ||
358 | - qemu-fast fixes | |
359 | - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell) | |
360 | - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell) | |
361 | - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers) | |
362 | - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell) | |
363 | - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
364 | - User mode network stack | |
365 | - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI) | |
366 | - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug) | |
367 | ||
368 | version 0.5.3: | |
369 | ||
370 | - added Bochs VESA VBE support | |
371 | - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix) | |
372 | - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe) | |
373 | - CPU interrupt fixes | |
374 | - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install) | |
375 | - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install) | |
376 | - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster) | |
377 | - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht) | |
378 | - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance | |
379 | in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast) | |
380 | - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras) | |
381 | - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation | |
382 | - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix) | |
383 | - graphical x86 linux loader | |
384 | - command line monitor | |
385 | - generic removable device support | |
386 | - support of CD-ROM change | |
387 | - multiple network interface support | |
388 | - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne) | |
389 | - lret to outer privilege fix (OS/2 install fix) | |
390 | - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot) | |
391 | - VM save/restore commands | |
392 | - new timer API | |
393 | - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates) | |
394 | - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu) | |
395 | ||
396 | version 0.5.2: | |
397 | ||
398 | - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing) | |
399 | - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when | |
400 | switching tasks | |
401 | - improved qemu-fast speed | |
402 | - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in | |
403 | softmmu mode). | |
404 | - fixed IO checking | |
405 | - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD) | |
406 | - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix) | |
407 | - added ROM memory support (win98 boot) | |
408 | - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception | |
409 | - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically | |
410 | when launching executables for the supported target CPUs. | |
411 | - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
412 | - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
413 | - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
414 | - fixed PTE dirty bit handling | |
415 | - fixed xadd same reg bug | |
416 | - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness | |
417 | - access to virtual memory in gdb stub | |
418 | - task gate and NT flag fixes | |
419 | - eflags optimisation fix for string operations | |
420 | ||
421 | version 0.5.1: | |
422 | ||
423 | - float access fixes when using soft mmu | |
424 | - PC emulation support on PowerPC | |
425 | - A20 support | |
426 | - IDE CD-ROM emulation | |
427 | - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht) | |
428 | - SB16 emulation (malc) | |
429 | - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3 | |
430 | - Port I/Os use TSS io map | |
431 | - Full task switching/task gate support | |
432 | - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx | |
433 | - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer) | |
434 | - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work) | |
435 | ||
436 | version 0.5.0: | |
437 | ||
438 | - full hardware level VGA emulation | |
439 | - graphical display with SDL | |
440 | - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation | |
441 | - popw (%esp) fix | |
442 | - mov to/from segment data width fix | |
443 | - added real mode support | |
444 | - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu | |
445 | - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky) | |
446 | - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os | |
447 | - multi-target build | |
448 | - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts | |
449 | - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn | |
450 | - correct single stepping through string operations | |
451 | - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg) | |
452 | - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell) | |
453 | - automatic IDE geometry detection | |
454 | - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}. | |
455 | - added man page | |
456 | - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes. | |
457 | ||
458 | version 0.4.3: | |
459 | ||
460 | - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction. | |
461 | - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix) | |
462 | - sparc and Alpha host fixes | |
463 | - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched. | |
464 | ||
465 | version 0.4.2: | |
466 | ||
467 | - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl) | |
468 | - IDE emulation support | |
469 | - initial GDB stub support | |
470 | - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell) | |
471 | - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images | |
472 | - SMP kernels can at least be booted | |
473 | ||
474 | version 0.4.1: | |
475 | ||
476 | - more accurate timer support in vl. | |
477 | - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl. | |
478 | - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test. | |
479 | - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl. | |
480 | ||
481 | version 0.4: | |
482 | ||
483 | - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation | |
484 | - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation | |
485 | - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap() | |
486 | - fixed popl (%esp) case | |
487 | - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command. | |
488 | ||
489 | version 0.3: | |
490 | ||
491 | - initial support for ARM emulation | |
492 | - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions | |
493 | - added FPU register save in signal emulation | |
494 | - initial ARM port | |
495 | - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test | |
496 | - generic ioctl number conversion | |
497 | - fixed ioctl type conversion | |
498 | ||
499 | version 0.2: | |
500 | ||
501 | - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell) | |
502 | - flock support (Rusty Russell) | |
503 | - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell) | |
504 | - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell) | |
505 | - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner) | |
506 | - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson) | |
507 | - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller) | |
508 | - added HLT instruction | |
509 | - LRET instruction fix. | |
510 | - added GPF generation for I/Os. | |
511 | - added INT3 and TF flag support. | |
512 | - SHL instruction C flag fix. | |
513 | - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB | |
514 | - self-modifying code support | |
515 | - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs) | |
516 | - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases) | |
517 | - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation | |
518 | - faster segment load in vm86 mode | |
519 | - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation) | |
520 | ||
521 | version 0.1.6: | |
522 | ||
523 | - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched | |
524 | ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell). | |
525 | - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan) | |
526 | - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the | |
527 | translation cache is not flushed) | |
528 | - RH9 fixes | |
529 | ||
530 | version 0.1.5: | |
531 | ||
532 | - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell) | |
533 | - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner) | |
534 | - removed bfd.h dependency | |
535 | - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC. | |
536 | - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC). | |
537 | ||
538 | version 0.1.4: | |
539 | ||
540 | - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit | |
541 | executables in wine). | |
542 | - fixed push/pop fs/gs | |
543 | - added iret instruction. | |
544 | - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl. | |
545 | ||
546 | version 0.1.3: | |
547 | ||
548 | - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand) | |
549 | - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
550 | - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
551 | - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
552 | - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
553 | - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
554 | - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | |
555 | - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand) | |
556 | - more accurate pushf/popf emulation | |
557 | - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example). | |
558 | - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions | |
559 | - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations | |
560 | - poll() fix | |
561 | ||
562 | version 0.1.2: | |
563 | ||
564 | - compile fixes | |
565 | - xlat instruction | |
566 | - xchg instruction memory lock | |
567 | - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte | |
568 | DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram | |
569 | Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html). | |
570 | ||
571 | version 0.1.1: | |
572 | ||
573 | - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes | |
574 | - added -s and -L options | |
575 | - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine | |
576 | - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents. | |
577 | ||
578 | version 0.1: | |
579 | ||
580 | - initial public release. |