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QEMU 7.0 Released With Intel AMX Support, Many RISC-V Additions
Since QEMU 6.2 at the end of last year, developers at Red Hat and other organizations have been busy working on QEMU 7.0 as this open-source emulator widely used as part of the free software Linux virtualization stack. QEMU 7.0 brings support for Intel AMX, a lot of ongoing RISC-V work, and more. Some of the QEMU 7.0 highlights include:
- QEMU continues maturing for the RISC-V CPU architecture support. QEMU 7.0 supports RISC-V's 1.0 Vector extension in ratified form, the RISC-V KVM support that was recently mainlined, experimental support for 128-bit CPUs, and support for a variety of other recent RISC-V extensions. The RISC-V virt machine now also supports up to 32 cores.
- QEMU 7.0 on x86 adds support for Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Intel AMX is one of the big additions coming with Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors shipping later this year and open-source Intel engineers have been busy plumbing AMX support throughout the Linux stack.
- Initial bits of SR/IOV support has landed for QEMU's PCI/PCIe code.
What if a program ran on an emulator but not on the real hardware? What if real hardware could not keep pace with the development of emulators for that hardware?
See Also:
www.qemu.org
Change Log 7.0
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 21 2022, @09:22PM (2 children)
It's systemd all the way down.
You know when those "futurologists" contemplate about how maybe our reality is really just running in a computer simulation? Well what do you think that simulation is running on???
You got it.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 21 2022, @09:34PM
Nope. You did down and it is systemd running in WSL and Windows Service Manager. That is being emulated on an IBM mainframe. And now you know why the Matrix is fake, gay and hella lame.
(Score: 3, Funny) by tangomargarine on Friday April 22 2022, @12:14AM
All those cryptid sightings are just binary logfile corruption from universed.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"