0.0.8

Highlights

It is the first release linked against UCRT (before it was MSVCRT). There is some preliminary work to support Lima.

Included in this release

• xz version 5.2.9
• QEMU 7.2.0 (this one includes 9pfs on Windows hosts patches and UEFI pflash fixes, if this functionality is not needed, then consider using official installer)
• gvproxy 0.5.0-dev(aab0ac9367fc5142f5857c36ac2352bcb3c60ab7)
• Podman 4.4.0-dev (cdcd2eddc713bf0372f5da137c007b1421f049b3) with patches to enable QEMU support on Windows
• gocat 0.3.0-dev (cc6fb8a5db72948af31628b019575478522f4425) rebuilt with dependency updates
• msys2-tools (minimal subset to support Lima) - package tree from 2023-01-17

How to install

1. Download and install QEMU (from this release or official one version 7.2.0 or newer)
2. Download and install Podman from this release (it might be a good idea to uninstall one first if you had it before)
3. Choose a location where you want utilities to reside and open console terminal there, then execute

powershell -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arixmkii/qcw/v0.0.8/qcw-utils.ps1'))"

or

pwsh -c "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arixmkii/qcw/v0.0.8/qcw-utils.ps1'))"

4. Follow the instructions in README.

SHA checksums

SHA512

2d1601831ecf485e875925ef44fe72b7fe98afbbd7f64d3d2951903c8f6c1ed209f08f0dbe5d17903f65bc2f538920b7cfba6c2c396f2255152a2b42cd478d8a *./gocat.zip
22dfc5630da0609fd81525930219936553ef79f1a214c79a136eee0447def775a032d6613b021394fef019a6f449776ce85eb2960fd4b2d73a9d3b74183264bf *./msys2-tools.zip
fd07c66f5ba22e376653808e956d03005bc92429c1579d5679850cc1e82c0e745d970f48fe8c7a8037b435ace8da7cc3a0eea13a768842722711fced466f2a95 *./podman-4.4.0-dev-setup.exe
0627ae96b4fba67f8ef9bea538339cdb82bcab237dce4b0118650e28d11ad5565343c52d0a69a5097c0b5162705d21ea6301e4aa3f732a2d19af77bde9303382 *./qemu-setup-7.2.0.exe