QuickEMU 4.9.8 released
QuickEMU 4.9.8, a tool for swiftly creating and running optimized virtual machines from the terminal on Linux and macOS systems, has been released. It includes several doc regenerations to stay current with the newest features.
For download functionality, Chinese Windows ISOs work now after some fixes, and QuickGet can correctly identify which macOS version it needs to grab for you. Linux Mint 22.1 users will find support added too, making virtual machines from this distro easy peasy.
Under the hood, QuickEMU also checks for PipeWire or PulseAudio before defaulting to ALSA if those are missing. This is a step toward being more robust overall. A recent update ensures it can function even if the curl config goes sideways.
There have been several other fixes aimed at smoothing out the user experience. Setting up public directories no longer causes crashes, and ParrotSec VM creation runs fine now thanks to some patches. Secure Boot handling for Linux guests has also been improved recently.
FreeDOS 1.4 and PCLinuxOS get added support as well.
QuickEMU keeps running smoothly with newer versions of Nix and Flake in its background too. It's worth mentioning that the documentation was refreshed to list these new options properly.
Finally, a few other small issues got sorted out alongside the ability to use smaller 4M qcow2 images for virtual machines. CPU config handling is also slightly better now, so you can pin them if needed for performance tweaks.
Release QuickEMU 4.9.8
What's Changed chore: regenerate docs to align with current release by @philclifford in #1544 fix(windows): Fix the download of the Chinese Windows ISO. by @debuggerx01
