QEMU
Run operating systems and programs for any machine, on any architecture
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 another, and can also run KVM and Xen virtual machines with near-native performance. It is widely used in development, testing, and production environments across Linux, BSD, and other platforms.
QEMU emulates CPUs and hardware at the instruction level for full-system or user-mode emulation, and uses hardware virtualization extensions (KVM/Xen) for near-native performance when available.
developers, system administrators, and researchers working across different CPU architectures
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- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
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