QEMU version 6.2.0 released
14 Dec 2021
We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 6.2.0 release. This release contains 2300+ 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:
- virtio-mem: guest memory dumps are now fully supported, along with pre-copy/post-copy migration and background guest snapshots
- QMP: support for nw DEVICE_UNPLUG_GUEST_ERROR to detect guest-reported hotplug failures
- TCG: improvements to TCG plugin argument syntax, and multi-core support for cache plugin
- 68k: improved support for Apple’s NuBus, including ability to load declaration ROMs, and slot IRQ support
- ARM: macOS hosts with Apple Silicon CPUs now support ‘hvf’ accelerator for AArch64 guests
- ARM: emulation support for Fujitsu A64FX processor model
- ARM: emulation support for kudo-mbc machine type
- ARM: M-profile MVE extension is now supported for Cortex-M55
- ARM: ‘virt’ machine now supports an emulated ITS (Interrupt Translation Service) and supports more than 123 CPUs in emulation mode
- ARM: xlnx-zcu102 and xlnx-versal-virt machines now support BBRAM and eFUSE devices
- PowerPC: improved POWER10 support for the ‘powernv’ machine type
- PowerPC: initial support for POWER10 DD2.0 CPU model
- PowerPC: support for FORM2 PAPR NUMA descriptions for ‘pseries’ machine type
- RISC-V: support for Zb[abcs] instruction set extensions
- RISC-V: support for vhost-user and numa mem options across all boards
- RISC-V: SiFive PWM support
- x86: support for new Snowridge-v4 CPU model
- x86: guest support for Intel SGX
- x86: AMD SEV guests now support measurement of kernel binary when doing direct kernel boot (not using a bootloader)
- and lots more…
Thank you to everyone involved!