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Also known as Quick Emulator

The Quick Emulator (QEMU) is a free and open-source machine emulator and virtualizer. As a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) it supports a number of hypervisors including the Linux based Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Xen, MacOS's HVF, Window's Hyper-V and a number of others. It is also capable of emulating a number of Instruction set architectures on any supported host through its JIT binary translator known at the Tiny Code Generator (TCG). This allows it to emulate full systems or run individual programs compiled for one processor architecture on any other. QEMU supports the emulation of x

Key facts

Software.logo
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Software.screenshot
QEMU 6.2 screenshot.png
Software.caption
The free operating system OpenIndiana running within QEMU, which runs as a process on Linux
Software.developer
QEMU team:Peter Maydell, et al.
Software.author
Fabrice Bellard
Software.operating system
Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS and some other UNIX platforms
Software.programming language
C
Software.genre
Hypervisor, emulator
Software.license
GPL-2.0-only

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Official website
www.nongnu.org/qemu
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QEMU 6.2 screenshot.png
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Commons gallery
QEMU
issue tracker URL
bugs.launchpad.net/qemu
Commons category
QEMU
software version identifier
11.0.0
source code repository URL
gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu
official blog URL
www.qemu.org/blog
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36 sections
Contents
  • Licensing
  • Operating modes
  • Features
  • Tiny Code Generator
  • Accelerator
  • Supported disk image formats
  • QEMU Object Model
  • Parallel emulation
  • Integration
  • VirtualBox
  • Xen-HVM
  • KVM
  • Win4Lin Pro Desktop
  • SerialICE
  • WinUAE
  • Unicorn
  • Limbo x86 PC Emulator
  • Emulated hardware platforms
  • x86
  • PowerPC
  • PowerMac
  • PREP
  • IBM System p
  • ARM
  • [[ARM32]]
  • [[ARM64]]
  • SPARC
  • SPARC64
  • MicroBlaze
  • LatticeMico32
  • CRIS
  • OpenRISC
  • Others
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

The Quick Emulator (QEMU) is a free and open-source machine emulator and virtualizer. As a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) it supports a number of hypervisors including the Linux based Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Xen, MacOS's HVF, Window's Hyper-V and a number of others. It is also capable of emulating a number of Instruction set architectures on any supported host through its JIT binary translator known at the Tiny Code Generator (TCG). This allows it to emulate full systems or run individual programs compiled for one processor architecture on any other. QEMU supports the emulation of x86, ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V, and many others.

==Licensing== QEMU is free software originally developed by Fabrice Bellard; the first preview release was in 2003. Different components of QEMU are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), BSD license, GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), or other GPL-compatible licenses.

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