Highlights

• QEMU backend updated to v8.0.2
• Rewrite of QEMU support internals. Much of the code to support QEMU has been refactored into a new project, QEMUKit, which will make it easier to support QEMU changes as well as support for new platforms. This means that v4.3.1 may contain a lot of UI bugs as testing is needed to make sure the new internals match up with the existing UI. Please help us by reporting any such issue you stumble upon.

Changes (v4.3.1)

• Updated QEMU backend to v8.0.2
• Refactored QEMU support to a new project: QEMUKit
• Machines with IDE interface (i44FX/PIIX) will now support two units per bus. Previously, we mapped IDE devices to one unit per bus. This means on some machines, the limit was two devices maximum. Now, we map two units per IDE bus which should increase the limit to four devices. Existing VMs will not get this change automatically in order to maintain compatibility. You can choose to opt-in to this new mapping by pressing the “Update Interface” button on each IDE drive in the VM settings. (#5358)
• Localization: Updated Japanese (thanks @MMP0 and @studio1a9)
• (macOS) Fixed crash when AVM window is closed (#5347)
• (macOS) New option “Automatic” for bridged network connection which will use the bridge the first active connection on the host. Both AVM and QEMU backends are supported. (#5410)
• (macOS) Fixed trackpad setting not saving (#5369)

Changes (v4.3.0)

• Updated QEMU backend to v8.0.0
• Changed audio backend from CoreAudio back to SPICE (as it was before v4.2.x). Clarify that CoreAudio backend does not support microphone (#5253)
• Add support for mouse buttons 4 and 5 (#5295)
• Wizard: Properly display an error message when there is a failure writing to disk (#5271)
• Fixed an issue where ISAPC emulation target cannot be started (#5280)
• Fixed CoreAudio being instantiated even when audio is disabled
• Fixed an issue where legacy VMs with AC97 sound card has an empty name in settings
• Fixed an QEMU issue where the ucomiss instruction causes a crash in some applications (#5294)
• Fixed an issue preventing VMs with commas in their name from starting (note only new VMs will be fixed) (#5332)
• (macOS) AVM: Support canceling macOS installation
• (macOS) utmctl: Added delete command (#5290)
• (macOS) Fixed an issue creating a shortcut from drag & drop as well as double clicking from Finder (#5310, #5311)
• (macOS) Added DHCP start/end settings for vmnet (#5301)
• (macOS) Added automatically syncing of system clock when macOS wakes up from sleep (when QEMU guest agent is installed) (#5252)

Issues

Please check the full list on Github and help report any bug you find that is not listed.

Installation

• iOS
• macOS

1. Hypervisor on iOS requires an M1 iPad.
2. Enabling JIT may require a separate JIT enabler such as Jitterbug or Jitstreamer.