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|version = 3.1.0-rc2{{Version|QEMU}}

|platform = [[Emulators on Windows, |Windows]]<br/>[[Emulators on Linux, |Linux]]<br/>[[Emulators on macOS|macOS, ]]<br/>[[Emulators on Android emulators|Android]] <small>(port)</small>

|target = [[86/286/386/486/Pentium/Pentium IIPOS_(Pong_Consoles)_CPUs_and_Other_Chips#x86_CPUs|x86 CPUs]]<br/>Various PowerPC machines<br/>Various ARM devices<br/>SPARC<br/>MicroBlaze<br/>LatticeMico32<br/>CRIS<br/>OpenRISC

'''[[wikipedia:QEMU|QEMU]]''' (an acronym for '''<u>Q</u>uick <u>Emu</u>lator''') is a general-purpose computer emulator and hypervisor originally developed by Fabrice Bellard in 2003. It emulates a wide range of architectures beyond [[wikipedia:x86|x86]], and has been used in [[Android emulators|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 first project to implement user-mode usermode emulation (on Linux), which allows one architecture to run software for another as if it were native.

* {| cellpadding="4"|-|align=center|{{Icon|Win|Lin|Mac}}|'''[https://www.qemu.org/download/ Recommended Builds]'''Official <br/ Recommended builds'''><small>Stable/Distro-dependent</small>|-|colspan="3"|<hr/>|-|align=center|{{Icon|Win-big}}|[https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w32/ 32-bit] and [https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/ 64-bit] (Windows, Linux, macOS)Builds<br/><small>Compiled by Stefan Weil</small>|-|align=center|{{Icon|APK-big}}* |[https://limboemulatorvirtualmachinery.weebly.com/limbo-downloads.html Limbo portPort] (<br/><small>Based on QEMU 5.1.0</small>|-|align=center|{{Icon|Lin|BSD}}|[https://pkgs.org/download/qemu <code>qemu</code> Package Listing]<br/><small>at pkgs.org</small>|} ==Overview==QEMU can act as an emulator for multiple architectures, or as a hypervisor if running an x86 guest on an x86 host. As a hypervisor, it can utilize KVM on Linux or Intel HAXM on Windows for hardware acceleration of virtual machines, which can result in near-native performance. As an emulator, it uses dynamic recompilers, which makes it much faster than [[Android emulators|AndroidBochs]]). Its maturity and performance have resulted in it being used as a basis for emulators for the Xbox, PS4, and iOS.QEMU completely lacks a GUI and must be run from the command-line. The official QEMU wiki includes links to various dedicated frontends, including those for Windows users. Linux users may prefer to instead use a virtual machine management system such as virt-manager that controls QEMU/KVM.