ChangeLog/9.0

System emulation

Removed features and incompatible changes

Consult the 'Removed features' page for details of suggested replacement functionality.

• Running QEMU with KVM requires Linux 4.4 or newer. A future version of QEMU will increase the minimum requirement for Arm hosts to Linux 4.19 (also when running KVM); if this is too restrictive for your use case, please contact us at qemu-devel@nongnu.org.
• The behaviour of the '-serial none' option when used together with other '-serial' options has been corrected. Previously when '-serial none' was followed by '-serial something' the '-serial none' was effectively ignored. Now it controls the existence of the first serial port, and the following '-serial' option controls the behaviour of the second serial port; this brings it in to line with how all other cases of multiple '-serial' options work. If you have a command line that was accidentally relying on the old behaviour, you can simply delete the unnecessary '-serial none'.

New deprecated options and features

Consult the "Deprecated Features" chapter of the QEMU System Emulation User's Guide for further details of the deprecations and their suggested replacements.

Arm

• New architectural features now emulated:
  • FEAT_NV
  • FEAT_NV2

• New board types:
  • b-l475e-iot01a : the B-L475E-IOT01A board (currently minimal support only)

• Changes to existing board types:
  • The Freescale i.MX6 now models the cache controller and the PCIe controller
  • The Allwinner R40 and Bananapi boards now model the USB controllers, the AHCI/SATA controller and the watchdog timer
  • Raspberry Pi boards now support the SPI controller
  • The npcm7xx based boards now support the ethernet controllers

HPPA

• SeaBIOS-hppa version 15
• Fixed 32-bit HP-UX crashes on B160L (32-bit) machine
• Fixed NetBSD boot failure due to power button in page zero
• Fixed NetBSD FPU detection failure
• Fixed OpenBSD 7.4 boot failure
• Allows usage of up to 3840 MB of memory (instead of 3 GB)
• Supports the qemu --nodefaults option

RISC-V

ISA and Extensions

• Add support for Zacas extension
• Add amocas.[w,d,q] instructions
• RVA22 profiles support
• Add RVV CSRs to KVM

Machines

• ACPI: Enable AIA, PLIC and update RHCT
• Fix the interrupts-extended property format of PLIC
• Document acpi parameter of virt machine
• Remove group setting of KVM AIA if the machine only has 1 socket
• sifive_u: Update S-mode U-Boot image build instructions

Fixes and Misc

• Fix th.dcache.cval1 priviledge check
• Don't allow write mstatus_vs without RVV
• Fix machine IDs QOM getters
• Fix KVM reg id sizes
• Upgrade OpenSBI from v1.3.1 to v1.4
• pmp: Ignore writes when RW=01 and MML=0
• Don't adjust vscause for exceptions
• Ensure mideleg is set correctly on reset

s390x

• Fix access register handling in the emulation of the LOAD ADDRESS EXTENDED (LAE) instruction

Memory backends

• Memory backends specified on the QEMU commandline can now be preallocated concurrently/asynchronously in some configurations, to speedup QEMU startup with preallocation on multiple memory backends: one requirement is that memory backends that are getting preallocated have a "thread-context" set.
• QEMU 8.2 accidentally allowed for creation of memory backends with sizes that are not aligned to the (huge) page size. This has been fixed.

Migration

• Fixed migration for SUSPENDED VM, where we used to ignore the SUSPENDED state and kick off the VM even if it was suspended before the migration.

TCG

Record/Replay

• fixed record/replay to avoid problems with partial chardev drains
• updated replay-dump.py for current ABI

Known issues

• See https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/11