qemu (1:7.0+dfsg-7) unstable; urgency=medium Starting with this version of qemu-system-x86 on x86 architecture, xen support is moved out to a separate package named qemu-system-xen. Xen release since 4.16.1-1 already uses qemu binary from this package. In order to support transition from old xen and xen-supporting qemu-system-x86 to separate xen build of qemu, the qemu-system-i386 binary is temporarily replaced by a shell wrapper which detects xen usage and if found, redirects the call to xen-enabled qemu binary if found (with a warning), or suggests to install qemu-system-xen package. If you used qemu-system-x86 (or qemu-system-x86-xen on Ubuntu) to run xen, please install qemu-system-xen. qemu-system-x86 is not used by xen anymore since 4.16.1-1. -- Michael Tokarev Sun, 15 May 2022 15:15:58 +0300 qemu (1:5.0-9) unstable; urgency=medium With this version, kvm wrapper (initially from the separate kvm package, which were later renamed to qemu-kvm) is merged back to qemu-system-x86 package, replacing old qemu-kvm package. 'kvm' command name turned out to be very handy for manual execution of qemu with kvm enabled, and we now rely on the upstream behavor - when executable name ends with "kvm" it enables the kvm mode by default if available, and falls back to TCG if not. -- Michael Tokarev Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:54:35 +0300 qemu (1.7.0+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=low Since version 1.7.0+dfsg-2, qemu-system-x86 switched from vgabios for plex/bochs project to implementation of vgabios provided by seabios. The latter is written almost entirely in C language so it is much easier to debugu/develop, but it lacks some 16bit protected mode functions which are present in vgabios. This means that it is possible that, for eaxample, some protected-mode games written for MS-DOS may not work since this release. This also means that vgabios package isn't used by qemu anymore, and might be removed from the system if there are no other users of it left. /usr/bin/kvm shell wrapper has been moved back to qemu-kvm package (it was moved to qemu-system-x86 in version 1.3.0+dfsg-2exp). Please note that we do not re-install qemu-kvm package if it has been removed as obsolete, so if you need /usr/bin/kvm wrapper please install qemu-kvm package again. This change allows qemu-system-x86 package to co-exist with the old qemu-kvm binary (not shell-wrapper) package from wheezy. -- Michael Tokarev Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:40:56 +0400