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

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Michael Roth has had the great pleasure of announcing the release of QEMU 2.6, the latest and most advanced version of the widely-used and highly customizable virtualization software for GNU/Linux operating systems.

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.

There’s also support for post-copy migration, Transport Layer Security (TLS) support for character devices, VFIO passthrough support for AMD XGBE 10Gb NIC, authentication and TLS support for several remote disk protocols, includ… (read more)

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