14 DAY TRIAL // QEMU, a generic open source emulator and virtualizer that can run OSes and programs made for a different machine, is now at version 2.1.0.
QEMU supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. The developers have made a huge number of improvements and changes in this release, and it looks like we might see a stable build soon.
According to the changelog, the 82573L NIC is no longer incorrectly treated as an 8254xx model, ARM firmware can now be passed to the vexpress machine via -bios, the llwinner SoC emulation has been improved, AArch64 TCG system emulation support has been added, support has been added for semihosting, support has been implemented for u-boot initrd images, KVM is now supported in the Malta board, and Little Endian guest support has been added for dump-guest-memory, virtio, and gdbstub.
Also, e500 machines now boot into u-boot by default, the IOMMU emulation has been improved, MSI and MSI-X are now supported in the megasas emulation, numerous fixes to XBZRLE have been implemented, and the detection of corrupt migration streams has been improved.
A complete list of changes and updates can be found in the official announcement. You can download QEMU 2.1 right now from Softpedia.