The latest version of QEMU can be downloaded from Softpedia

Sep 14, 2014 15:31 GMT  ·  By

QEMU 2.1.1, a generic open source emulator and virtualizer that can run OSes and programs made for a different machine, has been released and it's available for download.

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 firmware can now be passed to the vexpress machine via -bios, Allwinner SoC emulation has been improved, AArch64 TCG system emulation support has been included, support has been added for semihosting, Little Endian guest support for dump-guest-memory, virtio and gdbstub has been implemented, e500 machines now boot into u-boot by default, and virtio-ccw now supports migration.

Also, the IOMMU emulation has been improved, QEMU now presents version 0x14 for the emulated local APIC, the Broadwell CPU model has been added to the supported list, TCG now supports the "check" and "enforce" suboptions of "-cpu," RTL8168 NICs support has been added, Ctrl-L (form feed) can now be used to clear the screen in the monitor, 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 2.1.1 right now from Softpedia.