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HAXM v7.8.0

Change Log

• Enabled XSAVE feature in CPUID (#472).
• Enabled INVPCID instruction (#471).
• Improved the implementation of CPUID module (#470).
• Fixed a host crash issue caused by a regression (#469).
• Improved the user experience of installer (#474).

Note: Up to this release, HAXM supports QEMU from 2.9.0 to 7.2.0.

CheckTool v1.1.0

This is the updated release of HAXM Check Tool (#473). This release improves the user experience in below aspects:

• Updated Check Tool command options
• Enhanced the return value with error codes

HAXM v7.7.1

Change Log

• Enhanced the security level of accessing HAX device on Windows (#421).
• Adjusted the coding style of include path for all platforms (#429).
• Cleaned up the legacy VTLB engine (#386).

HAXM v7.7.0

Change Log

• Added a new IOCTL to enable getting CPUID features for guest VCPUs (#383).
• Enabled all supported CPUID leaves to be configurable (#382).
• Enabled several features in CPUID emulation (#381).
• Migrated the CI service from Travis CI to GitHub Actions (#353).

HAXM v7.6.6

Change Log

• Optimized the CPUID module and added support for setting two new CPUID leaves (#335).
• Fixed some vulnerability issues of loading DRs and MSRs (#347).
• Fixed some minor issues from static code scan (#351).
• Fixed the download URL in the homepage (#348).

CheckTool v1.0.0

This is the first release of HAXM Check Tool, a utility that is used to check the host system environment for HAXM. Its usage can be found in the README document.

It supports to check below system status:

• Intel CPU vendor
• Long (64-bit) mode support status
• VMX support status
• VMX enabling status
• EPT support status
• NX support status
• NX enabling status
• Hyper-V disabling status
• OS version
• OS architecture
• Guest occupancy status

HAXM v7.6.5

Change Log

• Optimized internal storage structure for CPUID feature set (#315).
• Fixed a performance issue caused by a regression (#312).
• Fixed some warnings from static code scan (#313).
• Introduced a new installer framework for Windows.

HAXM v7.6.1

Change Log

• Added a new IOCTL to enable setting CPUID feature for guest VCPUs (#277, #281, #282).
• Enabled PAT as HAXM supported CPUID feature and added IA32_CR_PAT VMX handling (#204).
• Changed to return deterministic cache parameters by host cache values (#204).
• Cleaned up the legacy EPT engine (#261).

HAXM v7.5.6

Change Log

• Enabled support for running on the system with more than 64 host CPUs (#255, #257).
• Improved the handling of undefined instructions by generating #UD exception (#247).
• Improved the CPUID features initialization and processing logic (#245).
• Updated the compilation configurations for Windows and macOS (#243, #244).

HAXM v7.5.4

Change Log

• Added VM pause support to fix the crash issue of loading snapshot (#239).
• Fixed incorrect interruptibility_state to resolve an issue on loading snapshot (#233).
• Fixed a bug during mapping memory slots (#237).
• Fixed incorrect VMX_ENTRY_CONTROLS loading (#225).
• Enabled PCLMULQDQ feature in CPUID emulation if supported by the host (#231).
• Optimized the log interfaces and enhanced the logging mechanism on Windows (#215, #232).
• Fixed the compilation warnings and errors on Linux (#223).