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.