QEMU

qemu.org

Run operating systems and programs for any machine on any architecture

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/ About /

QEMU is an open-source machine emulator and virtualizer that supports full-system emulation, user-mode emulation, and virtualization. It allows users to run operating systems or programs built for one architecture on a completely different host architecture. It also supports running KVM and Xen virtual machines with near-native performance.

/ How it works /

QEMU translates guest CPU instructions to host instructions via dynamic binary translation, and can leverage KVM or Xen for hardware-accelerated virtualization

/ Who it's for /

developers, system administrators, and researchers needing to run software across different CPU architectures

/ More info /

Background.

Status
launched
Business model
open-source
/ Discovered patterns /

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