QEMU

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Quick Emulator
Developer(s) Fabrice Bellard et al.
Latest version 8.2.0
Active Yes
Platform(s) Windows, Linux, macOS, Android (port)
Architecture(s) x86_64, ARM, PowerPC, SPARC, MIPS, Itanium
Type Hypervisor
Emulates 86/286/386/486/Pentium/Pentium II
Various PowerPC machines
Various ARM devices
SPARC
MicroBlaze
LatticeMico32
CRIS
OpenRISC
Programmed in C
Website qemu.org
Source code Official repository
GitHub mirror

QEMU (an acronym for 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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