The developers of the open-source QEMU (Quick EMUlator) emulator, which can run programs on various architectures such as ARM and RISC-V, have released version 5.0. Slashdot reader syn3rg writes: Hot on the heels of the 4.0 release (from a major release perspective), the QEMU team has released version 5.0. This version has many changes, including: Live migration support for external processes running on QEMU D-Bus Support for using memory backends for main/”built-in” guest RAMblock: support for compressed backup images via block jobsARM: support for the following architecture features: ARMv8.1 VHE/VMID16/PAN/PMU ARMv8.2 UAO/DCPoP/ATS1E1/TTCNP ARMv8.3 RCPC/CCIDX ARMv8.4 PMU/RCPCARM: support for Cortex-M7 CPUARM: new board support for tacoma-bmc, Netduino Plus 2, and Orangepi PCMIPS: support for GINVT (global TLB invalidation) instructionPowerPC: ‘powernv’ machine can now emulate KVM hardware acceleration to run KVM guests while in TCG modePowerPC: support for file-backed NVDIMMs for persistent memory emulationRISC-V: experimental support for v0.5 of draft hypervisor extensions390: support for Adapter Interrupt Suppression while running in KVM mode “Not a current user, but I’m happy to see the project advancing,” adds syn3rg. For the full list of changes, you can visit the changelog. QEMU 5.0 can downloaded here.
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