QEMU version 3.1.0 released



  • We would like to announce the availability of the QEMU 3.1.0 release. This release contains 1900+ commits from 189 authors.

    You can grab the tarball from our download page. The full list of changes are available in the Wiki.

    Highlights include:

    • ARM: emulation support for microbit and Xilinx Versal machine models
    • ARM: support for ARMv6M architecture and Cortex-M0 CPU model
    • ARM: support for Cortex-A72 CPU model
    • ARM: virt/xlnx-zynqmp: virtualization extensions for GICv2 interrupt controller
    • ARM: emulation of AArch32 virtualization/hypervisor mode now supported for Cortex-A7 and Corex-A15
    • MIPS: emulation support for nanoMIPS I7200
    • MIPS: emulation support for MXU SIMD instructions for MIPS32
    • PowerPC: pseries: enablement of nested virtualization via KVM-HV
    • PowerPC: prep: deprecated in favor of 40p machine model
    • Powerpc: 40p: IRQ routing fixes, switch from Open HackWare to OpenBIOS
    • PowerPC: g3beige/mac99: support for booting from virtio-blk-pci
    • s390: VFIO passthrough support for crypto devices (vfio-ap)
    • s390: KVM support for backing guests with huge pages
    • SPARC: sun4u: support for booting from virtio-blk-pci
    • x86: multi-threaded TCG support
    • x86: KVM support for Enlightened VMCS (improved perf for Hyper-V on KVM)
    • x86: KVM support for Hyper-V IPI enlightenments
    • Xtensa: support for input from chardev consoles
    • Support for AMD IOMMU interrupt remapping and guest virtual APIC mode
    • XTS cipher mode is now ~2x faster
    • stdvga and bocks-display devices can expose EDID information to guest, (for use with xres/yres resolution options)
    • qemu-img tool can now generate LUKS-encrypted files through ‘convert’ command
    • and lots more…

    Thank you to everyone involved!



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