3 - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
5 - New qcow2 disk image format
6 - Support of multiple VM snapshots
7 - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
9 - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
10 - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
11 - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
12 - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
13 - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
14 - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
15 - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
16 - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
17 - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
23 - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
25 - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
26 - Solaris/SPARC host support (Ben Taylor)
27 - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
28 - USB updates (Paul Brook)
29 - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
30 - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
31 - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
32 - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
33 - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
34 - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
35 - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
36 - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
40 - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
41 - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
42 - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
43 - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
45 - Solaris port (Ben Taylor)
46 - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
47 - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
48 - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
50 - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
54 - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
57 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
58 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
59 - DirectSound driver (malc)
60 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
61 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
62 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
64 - Linux host serial port access
65 - Linux host low level parallel port access
66 - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
67 - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
68 - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
70 - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
71 - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
76 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
77 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
78 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
79 - better user net performances
83 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
84 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
86 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
87 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
88 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
89 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
90 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
91 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
95 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
96 - user mode networking bug fix
97 - undocumented FPU ops support
98 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
100 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
101 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
102 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
103 - added generic 64 bit target support
104 - x86_64 target support
105 - initial APIC support
106 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
107 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
108 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
109 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
110 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
111 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
112 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
113 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
115 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
116 - generic FPU emulation code
117 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
121 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
122 - Virtual console support
123 - Better monitor line edition
124 - New block device layer
125 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
126 transparent decompression
127 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
128 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
129 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
130 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
131 - Support for not executable data sections
132 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
133 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
135 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
136 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
137 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
138 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
139 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
140 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
141 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
142 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
143 the virtual consoles.
144 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
145 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
146 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
147 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
148 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
149 - VGA font change fix
150 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
154 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
155 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
156 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
157 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
158 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
159 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
160 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
161 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
162 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
165 - dummy VGA PCI support
166 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
167 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
168 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
169 - added '-localtime' option
170 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
171 - APM and system shutdown support
173 - Support for other PC BIOSes
174 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
175 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
176 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
177 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
181 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
182 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
183 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
184 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
185 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
186 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
187 - FDC fixes for Win98
192 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
193 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
194 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
195 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
196 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
197 - User mode network stack
198 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
199 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
203 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
204 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
205 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
206 - CPU interrupt fixes
207 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
208 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
209 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
210 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
211 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
212 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
213 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
214 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
215 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
216 - graphical x86 linux loader
217 - command line monitor
218 - generic removable device support
219 - support of CD-ROM change
220 - multiple network interface support
221 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
222 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
223 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
224 - VM save/restore commands
226 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
227 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
231 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
232 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
234 - improved qemu-fast speed
235 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
238 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
239 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
240 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
241 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
242 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
243 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
244 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
245 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
246 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
247 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
248 - fixed xadd same reg bug
249 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
250 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
251 - task gate and NT flag fixes
252 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
256 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
257 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
259 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
260 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
261 - SB16 emulation (malc)
262 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
263 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
264 - Full task switching/task gate support
265 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
266 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
267 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
271 - full hardware level VGA emulation
272 - graphical display with SDL
273 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
275 - mov to/from segment data width fix
276 - added real mode support
277 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
278 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
279 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
281 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
282 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
283 - correct single stepping thru string operations
284 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
285 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
286 - automatic IDE geometry detection
287 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
289 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
293 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
294 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
295 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
296 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
300 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
301 - IDE emulation support
302 - initial GDB stub support
303 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
304 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
305 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
309 - more accurate timer support in vl.
310 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
311 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
312 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
316 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
317 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
318 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
319 - fixed popl (%esp) case
320 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
324 - initial support for ARM emulation
325 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
326 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
328 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
329 - generic ioctl number conversion
330 - fixed ioctl type conversion
334 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
335 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
336 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
337 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
338 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
339 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
340 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
341 - added HLT instruction
342 - LRET instruction fix.
343 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
344 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
345 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
346 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
347 - self-modifying code support
348 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
349 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
350 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
351 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
352 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
356 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
357 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
358 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
359 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
360 translation cache is not flushed)
365 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
366 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
367 - removed bfd.h dependancy
368 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
369 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
373 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
374 executables in wine).
375 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
376 - added iret instruction.
377 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
381 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
382 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
383 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
384 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
385 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
386 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
387 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
388 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
389 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
390 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
391 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
392 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
399 - xchg instruction memory lock
400 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
401 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
402 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
406 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
407 - added -s and -L options
408 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
409 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
413 - initial public release.