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Qemu v. 0.8.0
I just happened across The Qemu site and found that qemu v. 0.8.0 has been released *(yesterday). I haven't had a chance to download and try myself, but it looks like the open source virtualization s…
I just happened across The Qemu site and found that qemu v. 0.8.0 has been released *(yesterday). I haven't had a chance to download and try myself, but it looks like the open source virtualization software has had quite a few improvements. Among the most interesting I see are initial USB support and virtual networking between qemu sessions.
ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s cpu (Paul Brook)
- SMP support
- Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
- Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
- DirectSound driver (malc)
- ALSA audio driver (malc)
- new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
- ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
- Initial USB support
- Linux host serial port access
- Linux host low level parallel port access
- New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
- MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
- MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
- NX bit support
- Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
- Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support (Johannes Schindelin)