ChangeLog/8.0
System emulation
Incompatible changes
Consult the 'Removed features' page for details of suggested replacement functionality.
Other removed features
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.
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Alpha
Arm
- The following CPU architecture features are now emulated:
- FEAT_EVT
- New emulated CPU types:
- Cortex-A55 CPU
Machines
AVR
Hexagon
HPPA
- Implemented fid instruction (Floating-Point Identify)
- Create illegal instruction when executing 64-bit load/save on 32-bit emulation
LoongArch
Microblaze
MIPS
Nios2
OpenRISC
PowerPC
Renesas RX
Renesas SH
RISC-V
s390x
SPARC
Tricore
x86
Xtensa
Device emulation and assignment
ACPI / SMBIOS
Audio
Block devices
Graphics
I2C
Input devices
IPMI
Multi-process QEMU
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
Authorization subsystem
GUI
GDBStub
TCG Plugins
Host support
Memory backends
Migration
Monitor
QMP
HMP
Network
Block device backends and tools
Tracing
Semihosting
Miscellaneous
User-mode emulation
build
binfmt_misc
Hexagon
LoongArch
Nios2
HPPA
x86
TCG backends
ARM
Guest agent
Build Information
Build Dependencies
Windows
Testing and CI
Known issues
- see Planning/8.0