165584 – app-emulation/qemu-0.9 version bump

Bug 165584 - app-emulation/qemu-0.9 version bump

Summary: app-emulation/qemu-0.9 version bump

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Luca Barbato

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Reported:	2007-02-06 09:53 UTC by Lars Roland
Modified:	2007-02-10 12:05 UTC (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

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Description Lars Roland 2007-02-06 09:53:54 UTC

QEMU 0.9 is released. qemu-user, qemu-softmmu and qemu ebuild should be updated accordingly.

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-06 21:38:29 UTC

Whats nice is they also GPLed the kqemu kernel driver today also. 

Here are some handy notes from the ChangeLog

version 0.9.0:
  - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
  - Async file I/O API
  - New qcow2 disk image format
  - Support of multiple VM snapshots
  - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
  - SMM support
  - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
  - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
  - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
  - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
  - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
  - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
  - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
  - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)

Comment 2 Luca Barbato gentoo-dev

2007-02-10 12:05:24 UTC

All pieces are in portage now, please test a lot =)