After weeks of release candidates, QEMU 6.2 was officially released on Tuesday. Some of the highlights for this open-source processor emulator update include:
- In conjunction with a capable KVM, there is now support for Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) in the virtual machine.
- On macOS hosts with Apple Silicon SoCs, QEMU now supports the HVF accelerator for running AArch64 guests.
- The Fujitsu A64FX high-performance ARM processor is now supported by TCG, QEMU's Tiny Code Generator.
- Support for more RISC-V instructions, SiFive PWM support, and other improvements for handling this open-source processor ISA.
- Improved IBM POWER10 support.
- The Intel Snow Ridge v4 CPU model has been added.
- AMD SEV Now supports measured launches with the direct kernel boot mode when enabled via various settings and updated firmware.
- QEMU now fully supports guest memory dumps with VirtIO-MEM.
More details on QEMU 6.2 via the change-log . Download QEMU 6.2 at QEMU.org .