ChangeLog/9.1
Release schedule: Planning/9.1.
System emulation
Removed features and incompatible changes
Consult the 'Removed features' page for details of suggested replacement functionality.
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.
68k
Alpha
Arm
- New CPU architectural features emulated:
- FEAT_NMI
- FEAT_CSV2_3
- FEAT_ETS2
- FEAT_Spec_FPACC
- The 'max' CPU and any new CPU types will default to a 1GHz generic timer frequency rather than the old 62.5MHz (this is architecturally required from ARMv8.6 onwards)
- The emulated GICv3 also now has NMI support
- Changes to existing board models:
- Add DM163 display to B-L475E-IOT01A board
AVR
Hexagon
HPPA
LoongArch
ISA and Extensions
Machines
Microblaze
MIPS
Nios2
OpenRISC
PowerPC
Renesas RX
Renesas SH
ISA and Extensions
RISC-V
ISA and Extensions
Machines
Fixes and Misc
s390x
SPARC
Tricore
x86
Xen emulation under KVM
TCG
Known issues
Xtensa
Device emulation and assignment
ACPI / SMBIOS
Audio
Block devices
Graphics
Hyper-V
I2C
Input devices
IPMI
Multi-process QEMU
Network devices
NVDIMM
NVMe
PCI/PCIe
SCSI
SD card
SMBIOS
TPM
UFS
USB
VFIO
virtio
vDPA
Xen
fw_cfg
9pfs
virtiofs
Semihosting
Audio
Character devices
Crypto subsystem
Authorization subsystem
GUI
- Allow UNIX socket option for VNC websocket
GDBStub
TCG Plugins
Host support
Memory backends
Migration
- New 'exit-on-error' option to migrate-incoming, if set to false causes QEMU to not exit on incoming migration failure, giving the management layer an opportunity to fetch the error through QMP.