QEMU 2.6 Officially Released with Raspberry Pi 2 Emulation Support, New Features | Linux Today

QEMU 2.6 Officially Released with Raspberry Pi 2 Emulation Support, New Features

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Marius Nestor
May 12, 2016

QEMU 2.6 is a major release with numerous new features and improvements over the previous 2.5 branch, and according to the release notes attached below it ships with a brand-new raspi2 machine for providing Raspberry Pi 2 emulation support, headless support for OpenGL-capable displays via the Spice client, great improvements to virtio’s performance, as well as IPMI and PCIe multi-root support.

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Marius Nestor

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