ChangeLog/6.0
System emulation
Incompatible changes
New deprecated options and features
Consult the "Deprecated Features" chapter of the QEMU System Emulation User's Guide for the full list of historically deprecated features/options.
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Alpha
Arm
- xlnx-zynqmp boards now support the Xilinx ZynqMP CAN controllers
- the sbsa-ref board now supports Cortex-A53/57/72 cpus
- the xlnx-versal board now has USB support
AVR
HPPA
Microblaze
MIPS
Nios2
OpenRISC
PowerPC
- Deprecated 'compat' property of server class POWER cpus removed (use the 'max-cpu-compat' machine option instead)
- You can now explicitly choose 'kvm_type=auto' rather than only being able to do that by not setting it at all.
Renesas RX
Renesas SH
RISC-V
s390
SPARC
TileGX
Tricore
x86
- Intel PT can now be exposed to KVM guests when
CPUID.(EAX=14,ECX=0).ECX[LIP](bit 31) is 1. Previous versions only supported Intel PT when LIP=0 - New
sev-inject-launch-secretQMP command - The WHPX accelerator supports accelerated APIC ("-accel whpx,kernel-irqchip=on")
Xtensa
Device emulation and assignment
ACPI
Audio
Block devices
Graphics
Input devices
IPMI
Network devices
NVDIMM
NVMe
PCI/PCIe
SCSI
SD card
SMBIOS
TPM
USB
VFIO
virtio
Xen
fw_cfg
9pfs
virtiofs
Semihosting
Audio
Character devices
Crypto subsystem
experimental qmp interface
GUI
GDBStub
Host support
Memory backends
Migration
Monitor
QMP
- A new command set-action has been introduced. The command generalizes watchdog-set-action and allows changes to all the settings of the (also new) -action command line option.
HMP
Network
Block device backends and tools
Tracing
Miscellaneous
User-mode emulation
TCG
Guest agent
Build Information
Python
GIT submodules
Container Based Builds
Build Dependencies
Windows
Testing and CI
Known issues
- see Planning/6.0