Qsim 3.0

New Features:

• Now running on QEMU 3.0
• Simplified Setup scripts
• Cross plat builds (builds on OS X not tested for functionality)
• Built using QEMU plugin model (more on that later)
• Simpler to add changes in the future.

Feature changes:

• QSIM 3.0 Not backwards compatible
• OSDomain will eventually be removed all VM initialization functionality already replaced
• Some features could not be pulled forward
• E.x. state saving
• QEMU does not have a stable API

Qsim v2.6

Updated various components including qemu, linux kernel and capstone.

• Latest stable version of the linux kernel v4.1
• Busybox and capstone updated to latest version
• Minor kernel config and documentation updates
• Fix a hang for x86 callback generation
• Properly handle kernel idle threads in arm64

Known Issues:

A reproducibility issue has been reported for multi-core simulations.

Qsim v2.3.2

Fixed various bugs and cleaned up setup script to not use sudo.

Qsim v2.3.1

Update setup script

QSim v2.3

Highlights of this release:

• Upgrade the kernel and gcc components
• New API: get_bench_pid(), run_cpu()
• Use qemu's deterministic execution for repeatable experiments
• Minimizing qemu build dependencies
• Streamlining installation script
• SMP test infrastructure
• Lots of stability fixes all over

QSim v2.2

This is a combined qsim release for ARM64 and x86_64.
The main highlights of this release:

• support for headless mode using busybox and tiny linux kernel
• parallel macsim trace generator
• standardize on C++11