QEMU
| QEMU | |
|---|---|
The free operating system OpenIndiana running within QEMU, which runs as a process on Linux | |
| Original author(s) | Fabrice Bellard |
| Developer(s) | QEMU team: Peter Maydell, et al. |
| Stable release | 10.0.2
/ 29 May 2025 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS and some other UNIX platforms |
| Type | Hypervisor, Emulator |
| License | GPL-2.0-only |
| Website | www |
The Quick Emulator (QEMU) is a free and open-source emulator that uses dynamic binary translation to emulate a computer's processor; that is, it translates the emulated binary codes to an equivalent binary format which is executed by the machine. It provides a variety of hardware and device models for the virtual machine, enabling it to run different guest operating systems. QEMU can be used with a Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) to emulate hardware at near-native speeds. Additionally, it supports user-level processes, allowing applications compiled for one processor architecture to run on another.
QEMU supports the emulation of x86, ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V, and other architectures.