QEMU Version 6.1.0 Released

Is there anything exciting or noteworthy in this release? My only complaint about QEMU is the networking stack feels complicated, especially for user mode networking. Maybe just need to spend more time with it.

mistrial9• 5 years ago

I am going to take a wild guess and say -- it is 6.1 so.. things added to six that didnt make it into the deadline. Quick read of the changelog page shows RISC-V and ARM being filled out, other architectures active too.. and since they had some time, lining up the security gates to add spec-driven sorts of things, which always lag it seems.

All that said, I have not gotten over some early experiences with QEMU myself, which ended up being not very productive. Cowardly I retreated to vbox for daily use on a small network.. maybe 6 series has a different feel for the individual setup now.

zbrozek2• 5 years ago

I use qemu exclusively for my virtualization needs these days. I migrated away from virtualbox late in the 3.x era. Probably my biggest complaint is that the man page does not actually document all of the arguments to the emulator. For that you have to search the source code.

jefurii• 5 years ago

I replaced vbox with KVM/qemu over the past year. It's pretty easy to use with libvirt and cockpit.

rjsw• 5 years ago

My only complaint about QEMU is the networking stack feels complicated

Isn't that down to the features provided by the host OS ?

It is easy to connect it up to whatever you want on a BSD.

ducktective• 5 years ago

What are some interesting things that can be done with QEMU? Can it run a cross-compiled freeRTOS application for a STM32 MCU?

rurban• 5 years ago

Some stm32 boards are supported, yes. But not many. My fork on GitHub adds a few more.

racingmars• 5 years ago

I keep checking the release notes waiting for the -accel hvf patches for Apple ARM/M1 hosts to make it into a release... looks like I'll still be waiting! I can't figure out how to keep track in the patch system of which patches will apply cleanly to release tags or head of the repo.

QEMU Version 6.1.0 Released

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