ChangeLog/old
version 0.12.4:
- Workaround for broken OSS_GETVERSION on FreeBSD, part two (Juergen Lock) - oss: fix fragment setting (malc) - oss: issue OSS_GETVERSION ioctl only when needed (malc) - oss: refactor code around policy setting (malc) - oss: workaround for cases when OSS_GETVERSION is not defined (malc) - block: Free iovec arrays allocated by multiwrite_merge() (Stefan Hajnoczi) - lsi: fix segfault in lsi_command_complete (Gerd Hoffmann) - lsi: pass lsi_request to lsi_reselect (Gerd Hoffmann) - lsi: move dma_len+dma_buf into lsi_request (Gerd Hoffmann) - lsi: move current_dev into lsi_request (Gerd Hoffmann) - lsi: have lsi_request for the whole life time of the request. (Gerd Hoffmann) - lsi: use QTAILQ for lsi_queue (Gerd Hoffmann) - tcp/mips: Change TCG_AREG0 (fp -> s0) (Stefan Weil) - sh_pci: fix memory and I/O access (Aurelien Jarno) - Fix incoming migration with iothread (Marcelo Tosatti) - Fix SIGFPE for vnc display of width/height = 1 (Chris Webb) - net: remove broken net_set_boot_mask() boot device validation (Eduardo Habkost) - qcow2: Remove request from in-flight list after error (Kevin Wolf) - qcow2: Don't ignore immediate read/write failures (Kevin Wolf) - block: Fix multiwrite memory leak in error case (Kevin Wolf) - block: Fix error code in multiwrite for immediate failures (Kevin Wolf) - block: Fix multiwrite error handling (Kevin Wolf) - scsi-disk: fix buffer overflow (Gerd Hoffmann) - qcow2: Rewrite alloc_refcount_block/grow_refcount_table (Kevin Wolf) - qcow2: Factor next_refcount_table_size out (Kevin Wolf) - block: avoid creating too large iovecs in multiwrite_merge (Christoph Hellwig) - json-parser: Fix segfault on malformed input (Kevin Wolf) - linux-user: switch default ppc64 CPU to 970fx from 970 (Aurelien Jarno) - target-sh4: MMU: fix store queue addresses (Aurelien Jarno) - target-sh4: MMU: fix ITLB priviledge check (Aurelien Jarno) - target-sh4: MMU: fix mem_idx computation (Aurelien Jarno) - sh7750: handle MMUCR TI bit (Aurelien Jarno) - UHCI spurious interrut fix (Paul Brook) - tcg/mips: fix branch offset during retranslation (Aurelien Jarno) - tcg/arm: correctly save/restore registers in prologue/epilogue (Aurelien Jarno) - workaround for cmd646 bmdma register access while no dma is active (Igor V. Kovalenko) - Fix corner case in chardev udp: parameter (Jan Kiszka) - Don't set default monitor when there is a mux'ed one (Jan Kiszka) - spelling typo (compatibilty) in hw/fw_cfg.c (Vagrant Cascadian) - fdc: fix drive property handling. (Gerd Hoffmann) - target-i386: fix commit c22549204a6edc431e8e4358e61bd56386ff6957 (TeLeMan) - target-i386: fix SIB decoding with index = 4 (Aurelien Jarno) - Fix segfault with ram_size > 4095M without kvm (Ryan Harper) - target-i386: Fix long jumps/calls in long mode with REX.W set (malc) - target-i386: fix lddqu SSE instruction (Aurelien Jarno) - qemu-char.c: drop debug printfs from qemu_chr_parse_compat (Jan Kiszka) - fix undefined shifts by >32 (Paolo Bonzini) - Fix qemu -net user,hostfwd= example (Aurelien Jarno)
version 0.12.3:
- kvm: Fix eflags corruption in kvm mode (Jan Kiszka) - qcow2: Fix access after end of array (Kevin Wolf) - ide save/restore pio/atapi cmd transfer fields and io buffer (Marcelo Tosatti) - net: Monitor command set_link finds only VLAN clients, fix (Markus Armbruster) - net: info network shows only VLAN clients, fix (Markus Armbruster) - net: net_check_clients() checks only VLAN clients, fix (Markus Armbruster) - net: Fix bogus "Warning: vlan 0 with no nics" with -device (Markus Armbruster) - net: net_check_clients() runs too early to see -device, fix (Markus Armbruster) - net: Remove unused net_client_uninit() (Markus Armbruster) - don't dereference NULL after failed strdup (Jim Meyering) - virtio-net: fix network stall under load (Tom Lendacky) - json: fix PRId64 on Win32 (Roy Tam) - fix inet_parse typo (Marcelo Tosatti) - iothread: fix vcpu stop with smp tcg (Marcelo Tosatti) - segfault due to buffer overrun in usb-serial (David S. Ahern) - qcow2: Fix signedness bugs (Kevin Wolf) - Do not ignore error, if open file failed (-serial /dev/tty) (Evgeniy Dushistov) - pc-bios: update to newer version of (stable) seabios (Anthony Liguori) - target-mips: fix ROTR and DROTR by zero (Aurelien Jarno) - target-mips: fix CpU exception for coprocessor 0 (Nathan Froyd) - tcg/mips: fix crash in tcg_out_qemu_ld() (Aurelien Jarno) - target-mips: don't call cpu_loop_exit() from helper.c (Aurelien Jarno) - virtio-blk: Fix error cases which ignored rerror/werror (Kevin Wolf) - virtio-blk: Fix restart after read error (Kevin Wolf) - virtio_blk: Factor virtio_blk_handle_request out (Kevin Wolf) - cirrus: Properly re-register cirrus_linear_io_addr on vram unmap (Jan Kiszka) - qcow2: Don't ignore qcow2_alloc_clusters return value (Kevin Wolf) - qcow2: Don't ignore update_refcount return value (Kevin Wolf) - qcow2: Allow updating no refcounts (Kevin Wolf) - qcow2: Improve error handling in update_refcount (Kevin Wolf) - qcow2: Fix error handling in grow_refcount_table (Kevin Wolf) - block: Return original error codes in bdrv_pread/write (Kevin Wolf) - qcow2: Return 0/-errno in qcow2_alloc_cluster_offset (Kevin Wolf) - qcow2: Return 0/-errno in get_cluster_table (Kevin Wolf) - qcow2: Fix error handling in qcow_save_vmstate (Kevin Wolf) - qcow2: Fix error handling in qcow2_grow_l1_table (Kevin Wolf) - win32/sdl: Fix toggle full screen (Herve Poussineau) - win32: pair qemu_memalign() with qemu_vfree() (Herve Poussineau) - vnc_refresh: calling vnc_update_client might free vs (Stefano Stabellini) - Musicpal: Fix descriptor walk in eth_send (Jan Kiszka) - Musicpal: Fix wm8750 I2C address (Jan Kiszka) - fix savevm command without id or tag (Marcelo Tosatti) - reduce number of reinjects on ACK (Gleb Natapov) - QMP: Fix asynchronous events delivery (Luiz Capitulino) - Documentation: Add missing documentation for qdev related command line options (Stefan Weil) - pc: add driver version compat properties (Gerd Hoffmann) - scsi: device version property (Gerd Hoffmann) - ide: device version property (Gerd Hoffmann) - QMP: Emit asynchronous events on all QMP monitors (Adam Litke) - Fix QEMU_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT (Kevin Wolf)
version 0.12.2:
- Qemu's internal TFTP server breaks lock-step-iness of TFTP (Milan Plzik) - osdep.c: Fix accept4 fallback (Kevin Wolf) - pc: add rombar to compat properties for pc-0.10 and pc-0.11 (Gerd Hoffmann) - pci: allow loading roms via fw_cfg. (Gerd Hoffmann) - roms: rework rom loading via fw (Gerd Hoffmann) - fw_cfg: rom loader tweaks. (Gerd Hoffmann) - roms: minor fixes and cleanups. (Gerd Hoffmann) - pc: add machine type for 0.12 (Gerd Hoffmann) - loader: more ignores for rom intended to be loaded by the bios (Aurelien Jarno) - vnc_refresh: return if vd->timer is NULL (Stefano Stabellini) - QMP: Don't free async event's 'data' (Luiz Capitulino) - Handle TFTP ERROR from client (Thomas Horsten) - dmg: fix ->open failure (Christoph Hellwig) - virtio-pci: thinko fix (Michael S. Tsirkin) - pc-bios: Update README (SeaBIOS) (Stefan Weil) - vmware_vga: Check cursor dimensions passed from guest to avoid buffer overflow (Roland Dreier) - remove pending exception on vcpu reset. (Gleb Natapov) - Fix CPU topology initialization (Jiri Denemark) - MCE: Fix bug of IA32_MCG_STATUS after system reset (Huang Ying) - linuxboot: fix gdt address calculation (Avi Kivity) - QMP: Drop wrong assert() (Luiz Capitulino) - vnc: Fix artifacts in hextile decoding (Anthony Liguori) - target-i386: Fix "call im" on x86_64 when executing 32-bit code (Aurelien Jarno) - Add missing newline at the end of options list (Michael Tokarev) - Don't load options roms intended to be loaded by the bios in qemu (Avi Kivity) - USB: Improve usbdevice error messages (Scott Tsai) - cpu-all.h: fix cpu_get_real_ticks() #ifdef (Aurelien Jarno) - alpha: fix compile (Blue Swirl) - user_only: compile everything with -fpie (Kirill A. Shutemov) - fdc/sparc32: don't hang on detection under OBP (Artyom Tarasenko) - scsi-disk: Inquiry with allocation length of CDB < 36 (v4) (Artyom Tarasenko) - e1000: fix init values for command register (Michael S. Tsirkin)
version 0.12.1:
- loader: fix rom loading at address 0 (fixes target-arm) (Aurelien Jarno) - loader: fix rom_copy (fixes multiboot) (Kevin Wolf)
version 0.12.0:
- Update to SeaBIOS 0.5.0 - e1000: fix device link status in Linux (Anthony Liguori) - monitor: fix QMP for balloon command (Luiz Capitulino) - QMP: Return an empty dict by default (Luiz Capitulino) - QMP: Only handle converted commands (Luiz Capitulino) - pci: support PCI based option rom loading (Gerd Hoffman/Anthony Liguori) - Fix backcompat for hotplug of SCSI controllers (Daniel P. Berrange) - fdc: fix migration from 0.11 (Juan Quintela) - vmware-vga: fix segv on cursor resize. (Dave Airlie) - vmware-vga: various fixes (Dave Airlie/Anthony Liguori) - qdev: improve property error reporting. (Gerd Hoffmann) - fix vga names in default_list (Gerd Hoffmann) - usb-host: check mon before using it. (Gerd Hoffmann) - usb-net: use qdev for -usbdevice (Gerd Hoffmann) - monitor: Catch printing to non-existent monitor (Luiz Capitulino) - Avoid permanently disabled QEMU monitor when UNIX migration fails (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix loading of ELF multiboot kernels (Kevin Wolf) - qemu-io: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf) - Fix thinko in linuxboot.S (Paolo Bonzini) - target-i386: Fix evaluation of DR7 register (Jan Kiszka) - vnc: hextile: do not generate ForegroundSpecified and SubrectsColoured tiles (Anthony Liguori) - S390: Bail out without KVM (Alexander Graf) - S390: Don't tell guest we're updating config space (Alexander Graf) - target-s390: Fail on unknown instructions (Alexander Graf) - osdep: Fix runtime failure on older Linux kernels (Andre Przywara) - Fix a make -j race (Juergen Lock) - target-alpha: Fix generic ctz64. (Richard Henderson) - s390: Fix buggy assignment (Stefan Weil) - target-mips: fix user-mode emulation startup (Nathan Froyd) - target-i386: Update CPUID feature set for TCG (Andre Przywara) - s390: fix build on 32 bit host (Michael S. Tsirkin)
version 0.12.0-rc2:
- v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa) - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino) - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann) - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann) - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann) - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann) - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd Hoffmann) - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman) - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann) - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann) - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann) - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties. (Gerd Hoffmann) - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka) - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster) - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov) - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin) - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie) - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori) - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook) - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin) - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus Armbruster) - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster) - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus Armbruster) - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino) - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino) - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin) - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin) - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin) - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin) - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin) - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara) - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka) - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno)
version 0.11.1
- fix I2C slave addressing (Juha Riihimaki) - Revert "vga: do not resize the screen on hw_invalidate" (Aurelien Jarno) - slirp: fix use-after-free (Mark McLoughlin) - Fix sparc.ld (Blue Swirl) - ELF codedump build failures (Laurent Desnogues) - kvm: Move KVM mp_state accessors to i386-specific code (Hollis Blanchard) - fix configure script with armv4l cpu (Laurent Desnogues) - net: disable draining tap queue in one go (Mark McLoughlin) - pcnet: Restart poll timer on pcnet_start (Jan Kiszka) - Sparc32: Fix lance (Blue Swirl) - mac99: fix segmentation fault on startup (Aurelien Jarno) - usb-linux.c: fix buffer overflow (Jim Paris) - ARM host: fix generated blocks linking (Laurent Desnogues) - qemu serial: lost tx irqs (affecting FreeBSD's new uart(4) driver (Juergen Lock) - exec-all.h: increase MAX_OP_PER_INSTR to 96 from 64 (Aurelien Jarno)
version 0.11.0
- fix rtc polling mode (Bernhard Kauer) - qcow2: order concurrent aio requests (Kevin Wolf) - qemu-io: port to win32 (Stefan Weil) - alpha: fix extlh instruction (Vince Weaver) - tcg: fix size of local variables in tcg_gen_bswap64_i64 (Stefan Weil) - net: fix send ordering (Jan Kiszka) - escc: fix IRQ routing (Aurelien Jarno) - versatile: fix Linux task preemption (Aurelien Jarno) - curses: reduce memory usage by 250MB (Aurelien Jarno)
version 0.11.0-rc2
- mips: fix conditional move off fp conditions codes (Nath Froyd) - fix migration to obey -S (Paolo Bonzini) - remove pc-0-10 machine type (Mark McLoughlin) - vnc: fix copyrect screen corruption (Gerd Hoffman) - fix vm state change handlers running order (Markus Armbruster) - e1000: fix eerc and ics emulation (Bill Paul) - fix sdl zooming with pl110 (Blue Swirl) - sparc64: flush pending conditional evaluations (Igor Kovalenko) - esp: fix interrupt register read (Blue Swirl) - option rom makefile fixes (Paul Brook) - fix sparse warnings (Blue Swirl) - fix symfind (Laurent Desnogues) - win32: fix default prefix (Stefan Weil) - fix checksum writing in signboot (Alex Graf) - fix sdl window resize (Stefano Stabellini) - do not resize the screen on hw_invalidate (Stefano Stabellini) - Add checks for -smbios option (Beth Kon) - fix do_set_link (Luiz Capitulino) - fix do_commit behavior (Luiz Capitulino) - make windows notice media change (Gleb Natapov) - check for PR_SET_NAME being defined (Nathan Froyd) - fix migration for ide devices (Anthony Liguori) - Use correct depth in vmware vga (Reimar Doffiner) - support 32bpp cursors in sdl (Reimar Doffinger) - fix device name completion for eject (Blue Swirl) - make screendump use DisplayState properly (Stefano Stabellini) - fix autostart with live migration (Avi Kivity) - fix detached migration with exec (Chris Lalancette) - fix segv when changing vnc password in sdl (Zach Amsden) - fix vnc password clearing with stdio monitor (Zach Amsden) - clean up VGA type selection (Zach Amsden) - add missing linefeed in error message (Stefan Weil)
version 0.11.0-rc1:
- add machine aliasing support (Mark McLoughlin) - add getfd/closefd monitor commands (Mark McLoughlin) - use correct headers for tap-win32 (Filip Navara) - fix live migration (Glauber Costa) - slirp: use monotonic clock if available (Ed Swierk) - clear msix_entries_nr on error (Michael Tsirkin) - HPET: fix reg writes (Beth Kon) - slirp: fix guestfwd for incoming data (Jan Kiszka) - fix build of qemu-thread.c on win32 (Sebastian Herbszt) - improve signrom.sh portability (Christoph Egger) - fix qemu-img convert to copy unallocated parts of the image
(Akkarit Sangpetch)
- vmdk: fix backing file handling (Kevin Wolf) - scsi: add save/restore support (Nolan Leake) - fix live migration for SCSI (Nolan Leake) - various sparc build fixes (Blue Swirl) - fix OpenBSD build (Blue Swirl) - only allow -cpu host when using KVM (Anthony Liguori) - fix build breakage when !KVM (Anthony Liguori)
version 0.11.0-rc0
- configure refactoring (Juan Quintela) - qdev device model (Paul Brook, Gerd Hoffman, et al) - qemu-io (Christoph Hellwig, Kevin Wolf) - i386: multiboot support for -kernel (Alex Graf) - gdbstub: vCont support (Jan Kiszka) - i386: control over boot menu (Jan Kiszka) - i386: pc-0.10 compatibility machine type (Mark McLoughlin) - qcow2: use cache=writethrough by default (Kevin Wolf) - i386: MCE emulation (Huang Ying) - i386: host cpuid support (Andre Pzywara) - slirp: host network config (Jan Kiszka) - virtio: MSI-x support (Michael Tsirkin) - pci: allow devices to specify bus address (Markus Armbruster) - migration: allow down time based threshold (Glauber Costa) - virtio-net: filtering support (Alex Williamson) - http block device support (Alex Graf) - kvm: save/restore and reboot support (Jan Kiszka) - configure: remove --disable-gfx-check (Anthony Liguori) - arm: Syborg board emulation (Paul Brook) - xen: add pv guest support (Gerd Hoffman) - i386: expose numa topology to guests (Andre Przywara) - remove phys_ram_base (Paul Brook) - native preadv/pwritev support (Christoph Hellwig) - kvm: guest debugging support (Jan Kiszka) - vnc: support for acls and gssapi (Dan Berrange) - monitor: allow multiple monitors (Jan Kiszka)
version 0.10.6:
- e1000: ignore reset command (Kevin Wolf) - fix VNC memory allocation (Stefan Weil) - fix raw_pread_aligned return value (Christoph Hellwig) - allow monitor interaction when using -incoming exec: (Chris Lalancette) - fix -net socket,listen (Jan Kiszka) - live migration: don't send gratuitous packets all at once (Gleb Natapov) - serial: fix lost characters after sysrq (Jason Wessel) - Fix prototype of zfree (Stefan Weil) - Handle EINTR with exec: migration (Uri Lublin) - Delete io-handler before closing fd after migration (Uri Lublin) - Fix qemu_aio_flush (Andrea Arcangeli) - lsi53c895a: Implement additional registers (Sebastian Herbszt) - virtio-blk: fix warning (Gerd Hoffman) - i386: fix cpu reset (Nitin Kamble) - kvm: fix irq injection into full queue (Jan Kiszka) - Prevent CD-ROM eject while device is locked (Mark McLoughlin) - Fix screen dump with blank screen (Eduardo Habkost) - Fix memory leak with cpu_unregister_map_client (Isaku Yamahata) - Fix memory leak in SDL (Jan Kiszka) - Fix build on OS X 10.4 (John Arbuckle) - Fix leak of vlan clients after hot remove (Mark McLoughlin) - Fix migration after hot remove with eepro100 (Mark McLoughlin) - Don't start a VM after failed migration if stopped (Anthony Liguori) - Fix live migration under heavy IO load (Glauber Costa) - Honor -S on incoming migration (Paolo Bonzini) - Reset HPET config register on reset (Beth Kon) - Reset PS2 keyboard/mouse on reset (Dinesh Subraveti)
version 0.10.5:
- kvm: trim unsupported cpu features from cpuid (Avi Kivity) - kvm: provide a better error message for -smp > 1 (Mark McLoughlin) - Remove initrd printfs (Richard Jones) - Initial variables found by valgrind (Jean-Christophe Dubois) - Fix -initrd with > 4GB guests (Glauber Costa) - Fix busy loop on live migration for certain platforms (Uri Lublin) - Remove GCC 3.x requirements from docs (Hollis Blanchard) - ETRAX: fixes for kernel command line, ethernet address, bmi (Edgar Iglesias) - CRIS: Fix bmi (Edgar Iglesias) - Fix bounce buffer errors (Avi Kivity) - Fix regression in -kernel (Anthony Liguori)
version 0.10.4:
- Improve block range checks to remove integer overflow (Kevin Wolf) - e1000: do not re-init PCI config space 0 (Amit Shah) - fix AIO deletion race (Alex Graf) - reset option roms on reboot (Glauber Costa) - fix qcow2 corruption in cluster freeing (Gleb Natapov) - Enable power button event generation (Gleb Natapov)
version 0.10.3:
- fix AIO cancellations (Avi Kivity) - fix live migration error path on incoming - avoid SEGV on pci hotplug failure (Chris Wright) - fix serial option in -drive - support DDIM for option roms (Glauber Costa) - avoid fork/exec on pre-2.6.27 kernels with KVM (Jan Kiszka) - block-vpc: don't silently create smaller images than requested (Kevin Wolf) - Fix non-ACPI timer interrupt routing (Beth Kon) - hpet: fix emulation of HPET_TN_SETVAL (Jan Kiszka) - kvm: fix cpuid initialization (Jan Kiszka) - qcow2: fix corruption on little endian hosts (Kevin Wolf) - avoid leaing memory on hot unplug (Mark McLoughlin) - fix savevm/migration after hot unplug (Mark McLoughlin) - Fix keyboard mapping on newer Xords with non-default keymaps (balrog) - Make PCI config status register read-only (Anthony Liguori) - Fix crash on resolution change -> screen dump -> vga redraw (Avi Kivity)
version 0.10.2:
- fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori) - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa) - live migration: improve error propogation (Glauber Costa) - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright) - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost) - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake) - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell) - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno) - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka) - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost) - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau) - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber) - fix VGA regression (malc)
version 0.10.1:
- virtio-net: allow masking of notifications on empty queue (Alex Williamson) - e1000: fix rx descriptor low threshold logic (Alex Willaimson) - x86 tcg: add NULL checks to lsl instruction (Jan Kiszka) - kvm vga: fix screen corruption with -std-vga and Windows (Avi Kivity) - kvm vga: fix screen corruption with Ubuntu installations (Glauber Costa) - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson) - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug) (Marcelo Tosatti) - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info). This series of changes added a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori) - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno) - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori) - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request. When using TCG and a dynticks host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite loop (Aurelien Jarno) - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka) - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka) - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka) - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka) - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka) - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka) - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel) - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation (Ryan Harper)
version 0.10.0:
- TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x) - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support - BSD userspace emulation - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support - GDB XML register description support - Intel e1000 emulation - HPET emulation - VirtIO paravirtual device support - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation - PCI hotplug support - Live migration and new save/restore formats - Curses display support - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS) - Multiple VNC clients are now supported - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Herv� Poussineau) - Braille support (Samuel Thibault) - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka) - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski) - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve) - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Sch�tz) - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
version 0.9.1:
- TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu) - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong) - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel) - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau) - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau) - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif) - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer) - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski) - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook) - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm) - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer) - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer) - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi) - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf) - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias) - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl) - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer) - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh) - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski) - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery) - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell) - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster) - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
version 0.9.0:
- Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images - Async file I/O API - New qcow2 disk image format - Support of multiple VM snapshots - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support - SMM support - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer) - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil) - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont) - m68k user support (Paul Brook) - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori) - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori) - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
version 0.8.2:
- ACPI support - PC VGA BIOS fixes - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl) - VNC server fixes - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger) - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil) - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel) - USB updates (Paul Brook) - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel) - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio) - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko) - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis) - Support for variable frequency host CPUs - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer) - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
version 0.8.1:
- USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori) - win32 host serial support (Kazu) - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke) - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe) - SSE3 support - Solaris port (Juergen Keil) - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu) - VNC server (Anthony Liguori) - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.) - USB fixes - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
version 0.8.0:
- ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s cpu (Paul Brook) - SMP support - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg) - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg) - DirectSound driver (malc) - ALSA audio driver (malc) - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc) - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc) - Initial USB support - Linux host serial port access - Linux host low level parallel port access - New network emulation code supporting VLANs. - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz) - NX bit support - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl) - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support (Johannes Schindelin)
version 0.7.2:
- x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit) - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism. - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle) - better user net performances
version 0.7.1:
- read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin) - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir N. Oleynik) - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara) - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl) - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer) - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle) - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne) - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
version 0.7.0:
- better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection - user mode networking bug fix - undocumented FPU ops support - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes - 'pidfile' option - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin) - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin) - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek) - added generic 64 bit target support - x86_64 target support - initial APIC support - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere) - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl) - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl) - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook) - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook) - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook) - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook) - Samba 3 support - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont) - generic FPU emulation code - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
version 0.6.1:
- Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont) - Virtual console support - Better monitor line edition - New block device layer - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and transparent decompression - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested) - Support for up to 4 serial ports - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm) - Port redirection support in user mode networking - Support for not executable data sections - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin) - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve Wormley) - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2) - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone) - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl) - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows. - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin) - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to the virtual consoles. - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert) - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell) - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell) - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc) - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi) - VGA font change fix - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
version 0.6.0:
- minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix) - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot) - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto) - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere) - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell) - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix) - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix) - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images - PCI support - NE2K PCI support - dummy VGA PCI support - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell) - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI) - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug) - added '-localtime' option - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu)) - APM and system shutdown support - Fixed system reset - Support for other PC BIOSes - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer) - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86) - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
version 0.5.5:
- SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc) - VGA support on PowerPC PREP - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci) - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug) - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug) - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht) - FDC fixes for Win98
version 0.5.4:
- qemu-fast fixes - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell) - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell) - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers) - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell) - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer) - User mode network stack - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI) - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
version 0.5.3:
- added Bochs VESA VBE support - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix) - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe) - CPU interrupt fixes - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install) - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install) - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster) - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht) - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast) - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras) - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix) - graphical x86 linux loader - command line monitor - generic removable device support - support of CD-ROM change - multiple network interface support - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne) - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix) - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot) - VM save/restore commands - new timer API - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates) - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
version 0.5.2:
- improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing) - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when switching tasks - improved qemu-fast speed - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in softmmu mode). - fixed IO checking - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD) - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix) - added ROM memory support (win98 boot) - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically when launching executables for the supported target CPUs. - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer) - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer) - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer) - fixed PTE dirty bit handling - fixed xadd same reg bug - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness - access to virtual memory in gdb stub - task gate and NT flag fixes - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
version 0.5.1:
- float access fixes when using soft mmu - PC emulation support on PowerPC - A20 support - IDE CD-ROM emulation - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht) - SB16 emulation (malc) - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3 - Port I/Os use TSS io map - Full task switching/task gate support - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer) - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
version 0.5.0:
- full hardware level VGA emulation
- graphical display with SDL
- added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
- popw (%esp) fix
- mov to/from segment data width fix
- added real mode support
- added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
- m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
- partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
- multi-target build
- fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
- fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
- correct single stepping thru string operations
- preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
- tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
- automatic IDE geometry detection
- renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
- added man page
- added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
version 0.4.3:
- x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction. - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix) - sparc and Alpha host fixes - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
version 0.4.2:
- many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl) - IDE emulation support - initial GDB stub support - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell) - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images - SMP kernels can at least be booted
version 0.4.1:
- more accurate timer support in vl. - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl. - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test. - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
version 0.4:
- initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap() - fixed popl (%esp) case - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
version 0.3:
- initial support for ARM emulation - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions - added FPU register save in signal emulation - initial ARM port - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test - generic ioctl number conversion - fixed ioctl type conversion
version 0.2:
- PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell) - flock support (Rusty Russell) - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell) - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell) - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner) - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson) - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller) - added HLT instruction - LRET instruction fix. - added GPF generation for I/Os. - added INT3 and TF flag support. - SHL instruction C flag fix. - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB - self-modifying code support - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs) - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases) - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation - faster segment load in vm86 mode - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
version 0.1.6:
- automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell). - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan) - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the translation cache is not flushed) - RH9 fixes
version 0.1.5:
- ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell) - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner) - removed bfd.h dependancy - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC. - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
version 0.1.4:
- more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit executables in wine). - fixed push/pop fs/gs - added iret instruction. - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
version 0.1.3:
- S390 support (Ulrich Weigand) - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand) - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand) - more accurate pushf/popf emulation - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example). - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations - poll() fix
version 0.1.2:
- compile fixes - xlat instruction - xchg instruction memory lock - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
version 0.1.1:
- glibc 2.2 compilation fixes - added -s and -L options - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
version 0.1:
- initial public release.