QEMU 0.8.2 review

QEMU is a fast processor emulator

License: Open Software License File size: 1768K Developer: Fabrice Bellard

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QEMU is a fast processor emulator. Using dynamic translation it achieves a reasonable speed while being easy to port to new host CPUs.

In its user mode emulation mode, it can launch Linux processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU. Linux system calls are converted because of endianness and 32/64 bit mismatches.

In its full system emulation mode, QEMU emulates a full system, including a processor and various peripherials.

What's New in This Release:
ACPI support
PC VGA BIOS fixes
switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
VNC server fixes
MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
Solaris/SPARC host support (Ben Taylor)
PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
USB updates (Paul Brook)
UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
Support for variable frequency host CPUs
Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)