This article may be too technical for most readers to understand.(December 2024) |
Original author(s) | Fabrice Bellard |
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Developer(s) | QEMU team: Peter Maydell, et al. |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS and some other UNIX platforms |
Type | Hypervisor, Emulator |
License | GPL-2.0-only[3] |
Website | www |
The Quick Emulator (QEMU)[4] 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.[5]
QEMU supports the emulation of x86, ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V, and other architectures.