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QEMU, the open-source virtualizer and virtual machine monitor, released new 11.1.0 version one day ago.<\/p>\n
The new version of this software introduced many new features support for ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V emulation, improved QMP\/HMP monitoring support, and fixed various issues.<\/p>\n
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QEMU 11.1.0 added support for very recent ARM CPU architectures, especially the newer FP8 + SVE\/SME AI features and MTE security features. It can now emulate another NXP i.MX 8 development board: the i.MX 8M Plus EVK.<\/p>\n
It can now describe the CPU’s cache layout more accurately, and macOS’s Hypervisor Framework (HVF) backend can now support nested virtualization and virtual interrupt controllers.<\/p>\n
The HPPA emulator has been updated with newer firmware and fixes that make older HP-UX 9 systems work correctly.<\/p>\n
PowerPC emulation now has better support for recovering from unexpected resets and can emulate another type of memory-management hardware used by PowerPC systems.<\/p>\n
RISC-V support now covers the K230 board, can identify emulated Tenstorrent CPUs correctly, as well as more CPU features and better support for running RISC-V virtual machines with KVM.<\/p>\n
s390x KVM virtualization now supports a CPU feature needed when running virtual machines inside other virtual machines.<\/p>\n
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The new version added hot-add and hot-remove QMP monitor<\/b> support using the And, QMP monitor can now be configured to automatically remove itself when its client disconnects, which is useful for temporary, on-demand QMP connections.<\/p>\n The HMP (Human Monitor Protocol) monitor also support hot-add while the VM is already running, but it cannot remove that monitor dynamically.<\/p>\n image from wikipedia.org<\/p><\/div>\n QEMU can now offload the virtual machine’s clock handling to another userspace process through vhost-user, instead of handling it itself.<\/p>\n The virtual UFS storage now supports some advanced UFS 4.1 storage features, making it behave more like real modern UFS hardware.<\/p>\n The GUI’s virtual console support has been improved, including better handling of different text encodings, along with improvements to the GTK and VNC interfaces.<\/p>\n Other changes include:<\/p>\n The official release note as well as the download link are available in QEMU website via the link below:<\/p>\nobject-add<\/code> command and new monitor-qmp<\/code> type, without stopping or restarting the virtual machine.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/QEMU_6.2_running_NetBSD-700x394.webp\")
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fsmount<\/code>.<\/li>\n\/proc\/cpuinfo<\/code> emulation for ppc, loongarch and m68k CPUs.<\/li>\npreadv2()<\/code> and pwritev2()<\/code>, that can read\/write multiple memory buffers at once.<\/li>\n-mon<\/code> argument, in favor of the new -object<\/code> with monitor-qmp<\/code> and monitor-hmp<\/code> types.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nGet QEMU 11.1.0<\/h3>\n