Changes:
- 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)
pkgsrc changes:
Applied Hubert Feyrer workaround for the x86_64 target (patch-aw).
Changes:
- 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
Holland.
QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to achieve
good emulation speed, QEMU has two operating modes:
* Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system
(for example a PC), including a processor and various peripherals.
It can be used to launch different Operating Systems without rebooting
the PC or to debug system code.
* User mode emulation (Linux host only). In this mode, QEMU can launch
Linux processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU. It can be used
to launch the Wine Windows API emulator or to ease cross-compilation
and cross-debugging.
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It's nice to see NetBSD/x86 running perfectly with QEMU!
