qemu (1:8.0+dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=medium Qemu upstream dropped support of the C-language virtiofsd daemon implementation in version 8.0, so this package does not ship virtiofsd anymore. A rust-language implementation is available in a separate virtiofsd package. -- Michael Tokarev Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:26:14 +0300 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 (1:2.12+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium Since qemu 2.12, [G]UI display frontends can be built as modules. Debian creates new package, qemu-system-gui, which currently includes GTK3 support. This also switches display from SDL to GTK. Qemu-system-* packages recommends installing qemu-system-gui, so by default on upgrade you will have new package installed, and local GUI will continue to work. However, if you choose to not install recommended packages, you might consider installing qemu-system-gui package separately, if you need local GUI support as well. Without this package, qemu-system-* becomes "headless", and can be used on servers to reduce amount of dependencies - this way, no X11 stuff is needed by qemu-system anymore. -- Michael Tokarev Sun, 27 Apr 2018 09:18:32 +0300 qemu (1:2.2+dfsg-6exp) unstable; urgency=medium Since Debian release 2.2+dfsg-6exp, a new package named qemu-block-extra has been created and some less frequently used block backends has been split out of main qemu-system binaries and from qemu-img binary to this new package. The backends which has been split are: curl iscsi rbd (ceph/rados) ssh If you use any of these, please install qemu-block-extra package in addition to qemu-system-* or qemu-utils package, because without it these block backends won't work anymore. -- Michael Tokarev Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:29:55 +0300 qemu (2.0.0+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low qemu-system-* packages does not provide /usr/bin/qemu alternative anymore, and all various alternatives will be unregistered at new individual qemu-system packages install. This is because different architectures are not really alternatives, and never has been. Historically, qemu emulated just one architecture, so the name "qemu" was used for the binary. However when more architectures were added, the old name "qemu" was used as an alternative, pointing to one of the emulators. Upstream does not use the name "qemu" for binaries for a long time. If you have scripts using the old name "qemu" please update them to use the right qemu-system-* binary. -- Michael Tokarev Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:57:22 +0400 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