quickemu

Changes

• Fix Windows 11 downloads.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/compare/2.2.9...2.3.0

Changes

• Fixed WIndows 10 download
• Fixed NixOS CSV/JSON generation
• Fixed quickget trying to kill non-existant jobs.
• Update .gitignore by @daPhipz in https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/pull/168

Full Changelog: https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/compare/2.2.8...2.2.9

Changes

• Added support for QEMU Guest Agent
• Added kill all background processes when exiting quickget by @ymauray in https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/pull/165
• Added support for Bridge mode networking by @Hegz in https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/pull/160
• Fixed Ubuntu Canary support
• Fixed macOS Big Sur downloads
• Fixed link for elementary OS by @philclifford in https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/pull/163

Full Changelog: https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/compare/2.2.7...2.2.8

Changes

• Added support for macOS Monterey
• Added macOS Recovery Image ChuckList verification. Thanks @jspraul
• Added support for NixOS. Thanks @FedX-sudo
• Added support for Kali Linux. Thanks @takov751
• Added support for Ubuntu Canary images. Thanks @diddledani
• Added headless display option --display headless
• Added support for virtio-vga-gl in QEMU 6.1 and newer
• Added .ports file for GUI frontend creators.
• Added System Management Mode (SMM) support.
• Fixed Windows 11 SecureBoot for Fedora and Arch Linux based distros
• Fixed desktop shortcut creation
• Updated documentation.

Changes

quickget

• Added list_csv and list_json arguments for UI developers
• Added Ubuntu 21.10. Thanks @ymauray
• Added OpenBSD. Thanks @Wuji
• Added Pop!_OS, elementary OS, Linux Mint. Thanks @ymauray
• Added openSUSE (Leap, Tumbleweed, MicroOS). Thanks @ymauray and @apinter
• Add hash checking for all distros that publish SHAs

quickemu

• Disabled all disk tuning to improve compatibility on encrypted filesystems
• Disabled all network interfaces while installing Windows
  • This enables users to create local-only accounts
• Added support for ignoring unhandled machine-specific registers. Thanks @philclifford
• Added pidfile support
• Improve status messages by including host CPU and distro information

Changes

• Fix Linux guests not starting. Thanks @ymauray

Changes

• Added fully automate Windows driver installation. Thanks @diddledani
• Added Fedora support. Thanks @the-mentor
• Added Ubuntu Impish support. Thanks @ymauray
• Improved port scanning for port forwarding. Thanks @navycatt
• Added SHA1 checking for supported Windows iso images
• Added multi-distro support for OVMF firmware detection
• Added Samba file sharing.
• Fixed creating VMs with inadequate resources to run Windows or macOS
• Fixed disk_size
• Fixed VirtIO-9P tag size

Changes

• Bug fixes

Changes

• Added unattended configuration support Windows 10 and 11 to automate driver selection and disk formatting.
• Added support for FreeBSD 12 and 13.

Changes

• Improved used disk heuristics. Disk preallocation is off by default again.
• Changed macOS to always boot via OpenCore.
• Changed deleting a disk to also remove the EFI vars (not macOS).
• Updated documentation.

Changes

• Add TPM 2.0 support, which completes Windows 11 support.

Changes

• Added Windows 11 support to quickget.
• Added Windows 8.1 support to quickget.
• Added topoext for AMD CPUs to enable hyperthreading.
• Fixed escaping in generated shell scripts.

Changes

• Drop the .py from macrecovery.
• Updated documentation.

Changes

• Added quickget - Downloads Ubuntu (and flavours), Windows 10 and macOS, then creates VM configurations automatically.
  • quickget ubuntu-mate hirsute
  • quickget macos catalina
  • quickget windows 10
• Added host CPU detection and feature validation for improved guest SMP configuration.
• Add VirtIO-9p support for Linux and macOS guests.
• Added disk preallocation support. metadata preallocation is now the default.
• Added $fixed_iso to expose ISO images from the host to the gest, including macOS.
• Added $floppy to expose Floppy disk images to the guest.
• Added --version argument to quickemu.
• Added SMBIOS vendor fields.
• Optimised guest CPU flags for Windows and macOS guests.
• Optimised macOS based on the release. High Sierra, Mojva, Catalina and Big Sur supported.
  • Big Sur now uses VirtIO Networking, RNG and Memory Ballooning and USB 3.0 for host pass-through.
• Optimised Windows 10 using Hyper-V Enlightenments.
• Optimised RTC.
• Changed macOS display device to QXL for Catalina and Big Sur.
  • Resolution is now configurable via System Preferences for Mojave, Catalina and Big Sur.
• Changed to EFI boot, by default, for all guests.
• Disabled QEMU monitor for all guests.
• Removed rot13 required. Implemented using tr.
• Refactored to ease maintenance.
• Fixed several bugs.
• Updated documentation.

Changes

• Add SPICE support via spicy client.
  • Copy/paste text between guest and host.
  • File sharing.
  • USB device redirection.
  • Smartcard pass-through.
• Added --display option to chose SDL, GTK or SPICE.
• Drop smbd support.
• Elect a screen to derive VM resolution from.
• Fixed --fullscreen.
• Improved documentation.

Changes

• No longer uses the qemu-virgil snap.
• Required QEMU 6.0.0 as a minimum.