QEMU
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 QEMU running Windows 10 build 21301 | |
| Type | emulator, hypervisor |
|---|---|
| Host platform | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Guest platform | multiple [note 1] |
| Latest version | 6.0.0 |
| Released on | 29 April 2021 |
| License | GPLv2[1] |
| Website | https://www.qemu.org/ |
QEMU (which stands for Quick Emulator[2]) is an emulator that emulates many architectures of systems. It is mostly based around the Linux environment and runs via command line. However, several third-party graphical-based launchers are also available. Also QEMU can be accelerated with various ways, such as KVM (Linux only), HAXM, WHPX (Windows only) or HVF (macOS only), also KQEMU used to exist which also accelerated QEMU, but it is discontinued.
Supported guest operating systems[edit | edit source]
- MS-DOS (Without HAXM Acceleration)
- Windows 3.1x (Without HAXM Acceleration)
- Windows 95 (Without Acceleration)
- Windows 98 (Without Acceleration)
- Windows Me
- Almost any version of NT, including ARM32/AArch64 and MIPS releases
- Most versions of Linux
- BeOS
- NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP
Mac OS versions[edit | edit source]
QEMU can also emulate several Mac OS versions.
- Mac OS 9.0.4 (Requires ROM version 5.2.1 and above[3])
- Mac OS 9.1.x
- Mac OS 9.2.x
- Mac OS X Server 1.2v3 (No networking due to lack of gigabit ethernet support[3])
- Mac OS X 10.0
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.4
- Mac OS X 10.5 (Requires
-M mac99,via=pmuto run[3])
Gallery[edit | edit source]
Mac OS X Cheetah running on QEMU 5.2.0
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 running on QEMU 3.1
Windows 8 build 7927 running on QEMU 3.1
The MIPS version of Windows NT 4.0 running on QEMU 5.1
QEMU using the SDL frontend
PowerPC version of Lubuntu 14.04 running on QEMU 5.1
Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ See the QEMU documentation for the full list