QEMU allows you to run one or more operating systems (and their applications) in isolation on the same physical machine. QEMU works on x86, x86-64, PPC, Sparc, and ARM platforms. QEMU runs under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, Unix, and Windows operating systems.

QEMU is a free, reliable, and powerful virtualization tool. Guest operating systems share the resources of the physical machine.

QEMU is a “system emulator” or “virtual machine.” Guest operating systems are not “aware” of the underlying QEMU - they don’t need to be “ported” (adapted) to work on QEMU.

The Linux kernel module KQEMU (for Kernel QEMU) accelerates emulation on Linux operating systems.

QEMU Documentation
QEMU Documentation for OpenBSD

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Last updated 24 Aug 2007, 06:00 CEST. history