Features

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This page tells you about all the features Qemu has and will get and/or lose in the foreseeable future.

Primary and Secondary

A primary feature is a feature that is actively maintained. Breaking it by introducing new code is a no-go.

Secondary features are there and work, but either there's no active maintainer caring enough about it or people don't deem the feature important enough to declare breakages here a blocking issue.

Feature List

Feature Importance Maintainer Phase-In Phase-Out Comment
Guest CPU support
Alpha Guest Secondary ? available - -
ARM Guest Primary Paul Brook
Peter Maydell
available - -
CRIS Guest Secondary Edgar E. Iglesias available - -
x86 Guest Primary ? available - -
x86-64 Guest Primary ? available - -
LM32 Guest Secondary Michael Walle available - -
m68k Guest Secondary Paul Brook available - -
MicroBlaze Guest Secondary Edgar E. Iglesias available - -
MIPS Guest Secondary Aurelien Jarno available - -
PPC Guest Primary Alexander Graf available - -
S390x Guest Secondary Alexander Graf available - KVM only
SH4 Guest Secondary Aurelien Jarno available - -
Sparc Guest Secondary Blue Swirl available - -
Xtensa Guest Secondary Max Filippov available - -
Host CPU support
ARM Host Secondary Aurelien Jarno available - -
HPPA Host Secondary Richard Henderson available - -
x86 Host Primary ? available - -
x86_64 Host Primary ? available - -
IA64 Host Secondary Aurelien Jarno available - -
PPC(64) Host Secondary malc available - -
S390x Host Secondary Richard Henderson available - -
Sparc Host Secondary Blue Swirl available - -
Block layer
Generic block layer Primary Kevin Wolf available - -
qemu-img Tool Primary Kevin Wolf available - -
qemu-nbd Tool Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
qemu-io Tool Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
bochs Format Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
cloop Format Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
.cow Format Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
curl (http/ftp) Protocol Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
.dmg Format Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
nbd Protocol Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
parallels Format Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
qcow Format Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
qcow2 Format Primary Kevin Wolf available - -
raw Format Primary Kevin Wolf available - -
sheepdog Format Secondary MORITA Kazutaka available - -
.vdi Format Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
.vmdk Format Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
vpc Format Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
vvfat Protocol Secondary Kevin Wolf available - -
User Interfaces
Human Monitor Primary ? available - -
QMP Primary Luiz Capitulino available - -
VNC Output Primary Anthony Liguori available - -
Threaded VNC Output Primary Corentin Chary available - -
SPICE Output Primary Gerd Hoffmann available - -
SDL Output Primary ? available - -
curses Output Secondary ? available - -
cocoa Output Secondary Andreas Färber available - -
Host Platform
Linux Primary ? available - -
*BSD Secondary Blue Swirl available - -
Win32 Secondary ? available - -
Mac OS X Secondary Andreas Färber available - -
AIX Secondary malc available - -
KVM Support
x86 KVM Primary Avi Kivity available - -
x86_64 KVM Primary Avi Kivity available - -
PowerPC BookE KVM Primary Alexander Graf available - -
PowerPC Book3S KVM Primary Alexander Graf available - -
S390x KVM Primary Alexander Graf available - -
Devices
Smartcard Development - -