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quickemu - 3.12

Published by flexiondotorg over 2 years ago

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/compare/3.11...3.12

quickemu - 3.11 (WfW Edition 🪟)

Published by flexiondotorg almost 3 years ago

What's Changed

The issues with Windows installs requiring an enterprise online account only, are finally resolved (properly). So, we are celebrating with a 3.11 WfW release edition 🥳

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/compare/2.3.4...3.11

quickemu - 2.3.4

Published by flexiondotorg almost 3 years ago

What's Changed

During the Windows install network interfaces are completely disabled! This is to prevent SAP online accounts being the only user authentication mechanism. On subsequent boots, following initial install, the network interface will be fully enabled.

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/compare/2.3.3...2.3.4

quickemu - 2.3.3

Published by flexiondotorg almost 3 years ago

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/compare/2.3.2...2.3.3

quickemu - 2.3.2

Published by flexiondotorg almost 3 years ago

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/compare/2.3.1...2.3.2

quickemu - 2.3.1

Published by flexiondotorg almost 3 years ago

Changes

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/compare/2.3.0...2.3.1

quickemu - 2.3.0

Published by flexiondotorg almost 3 years ago

Changes

  • Fix Windows 11 downloads.

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

quickemu - 2.2.9

Published by flexiondotorg almost 3 years ago

Changes

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

quickemu - 2.2.8

Published by flexiondotorg almost 3 years ago

Changes

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

quickemu - 2.2.7

Published by flexiondotorg almost 3 years ago

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.
quickemu - 2.2.6

Published by flexiondotorg about 3 years ago

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
quickemu - 2.2.5

Published by flexiondotorg about 3 years ago

Changes

  • Fix Linux guests not starting. Thanks @ymauray
quickemu - 2.2.4

Published by flexiondotorg about 3 years ago

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
quickemu - 2.2.3

Published by flexiondotorg about 3 years ago

Changes

  • Bug fixes
quickemu - 2.2.2

Published by flexiondotorg about 3 years ago

Changes

  • Added unattended configuration support Windows 10 and 11 to automate driver selection and disk formatting.
  • Added support for FreeBSD 12 and 13.
quickemu - 2.2.1

Published by flexiondotorg about 3 years ago

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.
quickemu - 2.2.0

Published by flexiondotorg about 3 years ago

Changes

  • Add TPM 2.0 support, which completes Windows 11 support.
quickemu - 2.1.0

Published by flexiondotorg about 3 years ago

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.
quickemu - 2.0.2

Published by flexiondotorg about 3 years ago

Changes

  • Drop the .py from macrecovery.
  • Updated documentation.
quickemu - 2.0.1

Published by flexiondotorg about 3 years ago

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.