Quickemu 4.9.5 is out! 🚀

• Added support for running Quickemu on macOS and Asahi Linux 🍎
  • When running on Apple Silicon all guest VMs will are still currently Intel only. That will be fixed in an upcoming release.
• Added --offline argument to force running a VM with no networking 🛑
• Added --kill argument to force kill a running VM ☠️
• Added --sound-duplex to choose the sound duplex option, including output-only, with no mic/line-in 🔊
• Added support for QEMU virtual USB audio device via --sound-card usb-audio 🎛️
• Improved quickemu for VMs that are already running, will now automatically reconnect available SPICE sessions 🌶️
• Improved download output for macOS and Windows so they are consistent with other operating systems 📃
• Fixed CPU compatibility for macOS guests 🍏
• Fixed macOS display resolution, so using --width and --height now works 📐
• Fixed detection of old Ubuntu releases; 16.04 and older 🧓
• Fixed minimum RAM requirements for Windows and macOS guests 🧠
• Fixed detection of smartcard support in QEMU and SPICE 🪪
• Updated distro version support for NixOS, Linux Mint, ArcoLinux, MX Linux, Deepin, Slint, ParrotSec, Bazzite, HoloISO 🐧
• Updated distro version support for NetBSD and FreeBSD 😈

What's Changed

• fix: add quickreport to Makefile by @philclifford in #1185
• fix: add pciutils dependency by @philclifford in #1186
• chore: align subproject by @philclifford in #1188
• fix(quickemu): detect GLSL version and enable GL accordingly. close #920 by @flexiondotorg in #1189
• fix(nix): add missing gawk by @flexiondotorg in #1190
• fix: correct VM RAM allocation check for Windows and macOS. close #1191 by @flexiondotorg in #1193
• feat: add a small collection of requested features and fixes by @flexiondotorg in #1199
• fix: display resolution can be set using --width and--height for macOS and BSD by @flexiondotorg in #1204
• chore(new supported release): Added support for Linux Mint 21.3 by @EuroNutellaMan in #1213
• docs: Regenerated man pages with new options and wiki contributions by @philclifford in #1210
• fix: correct incorrect use of apostrophe in help by @philclifford in #1215
• refactor: code clean up by @flexiondotorg in #1208
• docs: regenerated man pages for new and changed options by @philclifford in #1219
• feat: remove unneeded sed from arcolinux url discovery by @philclifford in #1223
• fix: Arcolinux completely changed releases by @philclifford in #1233
• feat: add support for running quickemu on macOS hosts by @flexiondotorg in #1225
• fix: resolve portability issues between Linux distros and macOS by @flexiondotorg in #1247
• docs: man pages regenerated including recent wiki revisions by @philclifford in #1254
• fix: update flake to (mostly) work on macOS by @flexiondotorg in #1291
• Update README.md by @DavidGoodwin in #1255
• feat: adding nixos 24.05 to releases_nixos by @JollyDevelopment in #1266
• fix: don't declare SPICE as local within configure_ports. close #1240 by @mjoerg in #1264
• fix: correctly escape characters in edition/lang validation. Closes #1270 by @lj3954 in #1271
• fix: running quickemu and quickreport in zsh. close #1268 by @flexiondotorg in #1292
• chore(updated supported releases): Updated support for ParrotOS 6.1 by @EuroNutellaMan in #1279
• fix: correctly check for passthrough smartcard support. close #888 by @flexiondotorg in #1293
• fix: add uuid-runtime to debian/control. close #1256 by @flexiondotorg in #1294
• chore: make shellcheck happy in releases_nixos() by @flexiondotorg in #1295
• chore: make shellcheck happy in releases_parrotsec() by @flexiondotorg in #1296
• fix: update/correct downloads for MX Linux, ParrotSec, Deepin, NixOS, NetBSD & Slint by @flexiondotorg in #1297
• docs: prepare for 4.9.5 release by @flexiondotorg in #1298
• fix: Fixes nix flakes by adding version to package.nix by @mystery3525 in #1305
• fix: update bazzite to always get the latest stable release. close #1306 by @flexiondotorg in #1307
• fix: correct typo in max_outputs conditional by @flexiondotorg in #1309
• feat(quickemu): allow overriding insufficient RAM error by @takase1121 in #1308
• fix: update holoiso to only download the most recent release by @flexiondotorg in #1310
• chore: regenerated docs with README changes incorporated by @philclifford in #1303
• style: update warnings/errors for insufficient RAM allocation by @flexiondotorg in #1311
• style: indent RAM allocation warnings/errors by @flexiondotorg in #1312
• fix(debian): add missing comma in debian/control by @flexiondotorg in #1313

New Contributors

• @EuroNutellaMan made their first contribution in #1213
• @DavidGoodwin made their first contribution in #1255
• @JollyDevelopment made their first contribution in #1266
• @mjoerg made their first contribution in #1264
• @mystery3525 made their first contribution in #1305
• @takase1121 made their first contribution in #1308

Full Changelog: 4.9.4...4.9.5