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Sign in to saveThe 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
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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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36 sectionsContents
- 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.