QEMU

QEMU

QEMU running Windows 10 build 21301
Type	emulator, hypervisor
Developer(s)
Host platform	Windows, macOS, Linux
Guest platform	multiple
Latest version	7.0.0
Released on	19 April 2022
License	GPLv2
Website	https://www.qemu.org/

QEMU (which stands for Quick Emulator) is an emulator that replicates the functionality of various hardware devices. It is mostly based around the Linux environment and runs via command line, although several third-party GUI launchers are also available. QEMU provides support for hardware/software-based acceleration, which includes (but is not limited to) KVM, HAXM, WHPX and HVF, and formerly KQEMU.

On Linux, QEMU has multiple graphical user interfaces such as virt-manager or gnome-boxes.

Supported guest operating systems

• 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

QEMU can also emulate several Mac OS versions.

68k versions

• Mac OS 7.1
• Mac OS 7.5
• Mac OS 8.0
• Mac OS 8.1

PPC versions

• Mac OS 9.0.4 (Requires ROM version 5.2.1 and above)
• Mac OS 9.1.x
• Mac OS 9.2.x
• Mac OS X Server 1.x (No networking due to lack of gigabit ethernet support)
• 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=pmu to run)

Gallery

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  Mac OS 8.0 running on QEMU 6.0.90

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  Mac OS X Cheetah running on QEMU 5.2.0

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  Windows Vista Service Pack 1 running on QEMU 3.1

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  Windows 8 build 7927 running on QEMU 3.1

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  The MIPS version of Windows NT 4.0 running on QEMU 5.1

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  QEMU using the SDL frontend running Windows 10 build 21301.1000

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  PowerPC version of Lubuntu 14.04 running on QEMU 5.1

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  QEMU 2.12.0 booting Windows Vista build 5112

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  GNOME Boxes, a front-end for QEMU based on the GTK platform