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![]() The free operating system OpenIndiana running within QEMU, which runs as a process on Linux | |
Original author(s) | Fabrice Bellard |
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Developer(s) | QEMU team: Peter Maydell, et al. |
Stable release | 9.0.2[1] ![]() |
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Written in | C |
Operating system | Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS and some other UNIX platforms |
Type | Hypervisor, Emulator |
License | GPL-2.0-only[2] |
Website | www![]() |
QEMU (Quick Emulator[3]) is a free and open-source emulator. It emulates a computer's processor through dynamic binary translation and provides a set of different hardware and device models for the machine, enabling it to run a variety of guest operating systems. It can interoperate with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) to run virtual machines at near-native speed. QEMU can also do emulation for user-level processes, allowing applications compiled for one processor architecture to run on another.[4]
QEMU supports the emulation of various architectures, including x86, ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V, and others.