QEMU
| Developer(s) | Fabrice Bellard et al. |
|---|---|
| Latest version | 2.11.1 |
| Active | Yes |
| Platform(s) | Linux macOS Windows Android (port) |
| Architecture(s) | x86_64, ARM, PowerPC, SPARC, MIPS, Itanium |
| Emulates | 86/286/386/486/Pentium Various PowerPC machines Various ARM devices SPARC MicroBlaze LatticeMico32 CRIS OpenRISC |
| Website | qemu.org |
| Programmed in | C |
| Source code | Official repository GitHub mirror |
QEMU (Quick Emulator) is a general-purpose computer emulator and hypervisor originally developed by Fabrice Bellard in 2003. It emulates a wide range of architectures beyond x86, and has been used in Android emulation both officially and unofficially; it's also well-known in the server industry for its handling of virtual machines using KVM (and more recently libvirt), and is the choice of the VFIO community (running Windows in a virtual machine with a dedicated graphics card for gaming). QEMU is also the only known emulator to implement user-mode emulation (on Linux), which allows one architecture to run software for another as if it were native.
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- Official / Recommended builds (Linux, macOS, Windows)
- Limbo port (Android)
