QEMU 2.2 Moves Closer To Release With Many New Features
Written by Michael Larabel in Virtualization on 5 November 2014 at 10:30 AM EST. 5 Comments
VIRTUALIZATION --
QEMU 2.2 is under development to further advance Linux virtualization/emulation capabilities. QEMU 2.2-rc0 is now available as the first test release.

QEMU v2.2.0-rc0 was tagged this morning as the first milestone to the upcoming QEMU 2.2 stable release. Among the changes for QEMU 2.2 are improved ARM/MIPS/PowerPC/pSeries/Freescale/S390/SPARC support improvements, a TriCore target added, support for AVX512 emulation on x86 systems, IOMMU/VT-d emulation for the Q35 machine type, support for booting a bzImage or multi-boot kernel under Xen, SCSI improvements, support for USB 2.0 high-speed mice and keyboards, hot-plugging support for XHCI/EHCI/UHCI controllers, Samba 4.1 network support, and many other changes.

All of the QEMU 2.2 changes can be found via the QEMU.org Wiki. Expect the official QEMU 2.2.0 stable release in the weeks ahead.
5 Comments
Related News
VFIO Gets Batched Page Pinning For An Easy Performance Improvement With Linux 5.12
KVM With Linux 5.12 Allows For Userspace To Emulate Xen Hypercalls, AMD Optimization Too
Intel's Project ACRN To Upstream More Code With Linux 5.12
Bareflank 2.1 Released As The Last Before A Major Rework To This Open-Source Hypervisor
Xen Offers Up Security Fixes With Linux 5.11
KVM With Linux 5.11 Brings AMD SEV-ES Host Support
About The Author
Author picture

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.

Popular News This Week
Nintendo 64 Support Mailed In For The Linux 5.12 Kernel
Linux Mint Finds Many Of Its Users Are Running Behind On Security Updates
0 A.D. Real -Time Strategy Game Sees First Release In Nearly Three Years
Firefox 86.0 Released With Total Cookie Protection, Stack Clash Protection
PipeWire 0.3.22 Released With Many Improvements
NVIDIA Launching "CMP" Cards For Professional Mining, Limits RTX 3060 Mining Potential
GTK 4.2 Releasing Next Month With Likely Introducing A New OpenGL Renderer
Experimental Wayland Support For Wine Now Sees More Functionality Working