QEMU 0.9.1
Described by the homepage as ‘a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer’ it should be handy trying a new OS should you feel the urge, you’ll probably want to know what’s new in it first though so here it is:
- 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)
Download from the homepage.
