Open-source machine emulator and virtualizer supporting multiple host architectures and accelerators.
Field note
QEMU is a generic and open-source machine emulator and virtualizer. It supports building and running on multiple host OS platforms including Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows. It supports various CPU architectures and accelerators such as KVM, TCG, Xen, and more.
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Product features
Includes support for hvf, kvm, tcg, whpx, xen, mshv, and nvmm accelerators.
Support for user-mode emulation on BSD.
Provides standalone command line utilities such as qemu-img for creating, converting, and modifying disk images.
List of features that are deprecated and will be removed in future releases.
Documentation of guest hardware specific to QEMU.
Can work with hypervisors such as KVM, Xen, or Hypervisor.Framework to allow guest to run directly on host CPU.
Support for user-mode emulation on Linux.
Provides a virtual model of an entire machine (CPU, memory, emulated devices) to run a guest OS.
Supports building and running on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows.
Supports Arm, PPC, RISC-V, s390x, SPARC, and x86 host architectures.
Disk image utility for creating and converting disk images.
Provides a monitor interface for interacting with QEMU.
A daemon that provides disk image services.
The QEMU Object Model (QOM) is the object system for hardware models.
QEMU provides system emulation, enabling full system virtualization.
TCG (Tiny Code Generator) provides dynamic binary translation for CPU emulation.
Launch programs compiled for one CPU architecture on another CPU architecture within the same OS.