QEMU 2.8 Is Coming Next Month With New Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: QEMU 2.8 Is Coming Next Month With New Features

QEMU 2.8.0-rc0 was released on Thursday as the first step towards getting this next update out the door for improving the Linux virtualization stack...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=QEMU-2.8-RC0

[jacob]

POWER9 support: does it mean it can emulate a POWER9 CPU on other architectures, or use whichever virtualisation features the POWER9 supports? (or both)?

[darkbasic]

POWER9 support: does it mean it can emulate a POWER9 CPU on other architectures

Yes, that's the job of QEMU after all.

[ruthan]

Im still waiting for OpenGL GPU and Sound card for PowerPC MacOS 10.x

[stiiixy]

Hah, same here. Have an old iMac with the funky halfball base sitting around and decided bugger it, would be easier to emulate. Turns out it wasnt!