Equipment simulation software QEMU 8.2 released: support Godson LASX extension and PRELDX instructions, etc.
CTOnews.com, December 21 (Xinhua)-- the open source device emulator and virtualization software QEMU 8.2 have been officially released. This is the second major update to the QEMU 8.0 series. Friends can click here to visit the download address.
▲ source QEMU project official website QEMU (Quick Emulator) is one of the mainstream device simulation software in the industry, which can run operating systems and programs supporting other architectures on physical machines with one architecture (such as X86 PC), so that the software can run under different hardware architectures without awareness. For software developers, QEMU can provide a platform for system execution under different hardware architectures, as well as a software cross-architecture integrated test environment to improve software development efficiency and maturity.
The main update log of QEMU 8.2 attached to CTOnews.com is as follows:
ARM: provide CPU simulation support for Cortex-a710 and neoverse-n2
ARM: supports architectural features such as PACQARMA3, EPAC, Pauth2, FPAC, FPACCOMBINE, TIDCP1, MOPS, HBC and HPMN0
HPPA: provide CPU emulation support for 64-bit PA-RISC 2.0
HPPA: provide machine simulation support for C3700
LoongArch: support for LASX extensions and PRELDX directives
LoongArch: enable CPU emulation support for la132
RISC-V: provides ISA / extension support for AIA virtualization based on KVM and vector encryption instructions
RISC-V: redo a lot of extensions and instructions
S390x: vfio-ap passthrough that supports encryption adapters to protect protected virtualized users
Tricore: TC37x CPU supporting the implementation of ISA v1.6.2
Tricore: supports CRCN, FTOU, FTOHP, and HPTOF instructions
The x86:Zen architecture now supports "PV console" and "network devices"
Added new virtio-sound device emulation
Enable new virtio-gpu rutabaga device emulation for Android simulator
New dynamic memory protocol device hv-balloon for Hyper-V guests
A new Universal Flash device simulation has been added
Improved performance of 64-bit offset of network block devices (NBD)
Dump-guest-memory now supports standard kdump format
