ChangeLog/0.15
0.15.0
Targets
- New targets added: LatticeMico32 and UniCore32.
ARM
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MIPS
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SH4
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PPC
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s390x
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SPARC
- Sparc32: Improvements to OpenBIOS make Solaris 8 boot possible.
- Minor Sparc32 and Sparc64 fixes.
Hosts
ARM
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MIPS
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IA64
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KVM
Common
- Countless fixes ported over from qemu-kvm, core is now shared with that tree, i.e. has the same quality
- Pimped up threading model, now fully synchronized with qemu-kvm tree
- Removed dependency on external kernel headers, all supported KVM features are now built into the binary
x86
- Paravirtual kvmclock fixes
- Stable guest TSC across migration
- Support for SMEP CPU feature
- Support for VIA CPU features
- Reworked & fixed MCE support
PPC
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s390x
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Devices
IDE / AHCI
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SCSI
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USB
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virtio
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PCI/PCI Express
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Sound
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Video
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RTC
- MC146818 (for PCs): Follow host clock resets to the past immediately (instead of freezing the clock)
Block Drivers
qcow2
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qed
- Support for growing images with qemu-img resize (commit)
- Periodically flush and clear need check bit to reduce chance of leaving image files dirty on power failure (commit)
- Fix consistency check on 32-bit hosts (commit)
Networking
User space (slirp)
- Fixed DHCP support in restrict (host-only) mode
- Ping packet forwarding to external hosts via unprivileged ICMP sockets of Linux 3.0
Spice
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QMP / Monitor
- Support for two new QMP commands: inject-nmi ((commit) and snapshot-blkdev-sync ((commit)
- Fixed some issues with the JSON parser (several commits, first one here)
- Added the guest agent (commit)
Tracing
- Make simpletrace.py a Python module for trace analysis scripts (blog), (commit)
- Make 'simple' backend thread-safe (commit)
- Add tracetool --probe-prefix optional argument to prefix DTrace probe names (commit)
Other stuff
- Xen support merged (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/05/13/xen-support-upstreamed-to-qemu/)