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- TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
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- Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
- Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
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- ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
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- CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
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- Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
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- MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
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- Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
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- ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
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- Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
- MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
- Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
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- Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
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- SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
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- CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
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- SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
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- MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
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- Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
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- OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
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- ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
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version 0.9.0:
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- Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
- Async file I/O API
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- New qcow2 disk image format
- Support of multiple VM snapshots
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- Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
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- SMM support
- Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
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- Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
- MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
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- Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
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- 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)
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version 0.8.2:
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- ACPI support
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- PC VGA BIOS fixes
- switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
- VNC server fixes
- MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
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- Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
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- PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
- USB updates (Paul Brook)
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- UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
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- Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
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- 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)
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version 0.8.1:
- USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
- win32 host serial support (Kazu)
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- PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
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- IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
- SSE3 support
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- Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
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- Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
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- VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
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- slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
- USB fixes
- ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
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version 0.8.0:
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- ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
cpu (Paul Brook)
- SMP support
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- Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
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- Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
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- DirectSound driver (malc)
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- ALSA audio driver (malc)
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- new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
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- ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
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- Initial USB support
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- Linux host serial port access
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- Linux host low level parallel port access
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- New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
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- MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
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- MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
- NX bit support
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- Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
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- Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
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- 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
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version 0.7.1:
- read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
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- Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
N. Oleynik)
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- VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
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- SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
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- initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
- MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
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- 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
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- IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
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version 0.7.0:
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- better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
- user mode networking bug fix
- undocumented FPU ops support
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- Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
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- 'pidfile' option
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- .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
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- keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
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- big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
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- added generic 64 bit target support
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- x86_64 target support
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- initial APIC support
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- MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
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- PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
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- initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
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- SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
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- armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
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- ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
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- ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
- user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
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- Samba 3 support
- initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
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- generic FPU emulation code
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- Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
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version 0.6.1:
- Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
- Virtual console support
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- Better monitor line edition
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- New block device layer
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- 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
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- TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
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- Port redirection support in user mode networking
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- Support for not executable data sections
- Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
- Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
Wormley)
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- 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)
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- SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
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- Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
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- '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
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- ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
- Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
the virtual consoles.
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- 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)
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- SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
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- ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
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- VGA font change fix
- VGA read-only CRTC register fix
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version 0.6.0:
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- minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
- cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
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- *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
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- vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
- PCI support
- NE2K PCI support
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- dummy VGA PCI support
- VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
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- PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
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- PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
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- added '-localtime' option
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- Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
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- APM and system shutdown support
- Fixed system reset
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- Support for other PC BIOSes
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- Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
- PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
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- initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
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- Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
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version 0.5.5:
- SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
- VGA support on PowerPC PREP
- VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
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- PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
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- IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
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- ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
- FDC fixes for Win98
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- 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)
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- QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
- User mode network stack
- imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
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- precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
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version 0.5.3:
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- added Bochs VESA VBE support
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- 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)
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- fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
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- direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
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- ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
- added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
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- 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
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- command line monitor
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- generic removable device support
- support of CD-ROM change
- multiple network interface support
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- initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
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- lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
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- task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
- VM save/restore commands
- new timer API
- more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
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- Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
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- 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.
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- PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
- PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
- polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
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- fixed PTE dirty bit handling
- fixed xadd same reg bug
- fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
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- access to virtual memory in gdb stub
- task gate and NT flag fixes
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- eflags optimisation fix for string operations
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- float access fixes when using soft mmu
- PC emulation support on PowerPC
- A20 support
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- 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
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- added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
- PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
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- Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
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- 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
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- added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
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- m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
- partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
- multi-target build
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- 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
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- preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
- tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
- automatic IDE geometry detection
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- renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
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- added man page
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- added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
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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.
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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)
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- accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
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- SMP kernels can at least be booted
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version 0.4.1:
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- 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.
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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
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- Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
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version 0.3:
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- initial support for ARM emulation
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- added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
- added FPU register save in signal emulation
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- initial ARM port
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- Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
- generic ioctl number conversion
- fixed ioctl type conversion
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version 0.2:
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- PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
- flock support (Rusty Russell)
- ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
- fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
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- initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
- initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
- initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
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- added HLT instruction
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- 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
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- 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)
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version 0.1.6:
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- automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
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- ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
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- first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
translation cache is not flushed)
- RH9 fixes
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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).
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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.
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- added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
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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
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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).
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version 0.1.1:
- glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
- added -s and -L options
- binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
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- big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
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version 0.1:
- initial public release.