Links

Development

• Savannah project page
• QEMU patches from the mailing list
• IRC channel: #qemu on irc.oftc.net

Developers

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Unofficial QEMU binaries

• Precompiled Windows versions (1.4.0), provided by Prashant Satish
• Precompiled Windows versions (≥ 0.13.0), provided by Eric Lassauge
• Precompiled Windows versions (≥ 0.9.1), provided by TAKEDA Toshiya
• Precompiled Windows versions (32 and 64 bit), provided by Stefan Weil
• Older precompiled Windows versions (≤ 0.9.0), provided by Kazu
• RPMs for Fedora and RHEL
• Slackware packages

Alternate QEMU repositories

• Openmoko (Neo1973) target
• Malc's GIT repository including audio improvements, an x86 interpreter (useful for MSDOS demos heavily using self modifying code), full A/V capture
• Android emulation - see also http://gsoc11-qemu-android.blogspot.de/
• AR7 routers, TCG interpreter (maintained by Stefan Weil)
• Motorola 680x0 (not coldfire — maintained by Laurent Vivier)
• Z80 target (works, but needs flags optimisation)
• PA-RISC target — early stages (needs linux-user rework for stack growing up)
• Mamona project
• MeeGo QEMU
• kqemu archive includes patches for the former acceleration module
• qemu-linaro - mostly tracks upstream; includes OMAP3 support
• Blackfin target (maintained by Mike Frysinger)

Historical ports

• Q repository (Mac OS X port of v0.9.1)
• OpenSolaris project (OpenSolaris port of ~v0.9.1)

GUI Front Ends

Project Name	Latest Release
Witsbits is a combination of a web service and a boot loader, enabling bare-metal servers to host virtual machines with QEMU quickly.	2012-10-16
AQEMU GUI for QEMU and KVM (Linux), docs (German), more docs (German)	2011-07-27
QEMU Manager on Windows by Dave Reynolds.	2010-04
Q is a Mac OS X port of QEMU 0.9.1 with a nice GUI	2008-02-16
QtEmu, a graphical user interface for QEMU written in Qt4 for Linux and Windows	2007-11-12
qemudo, QEMU Web Interface	2007-02-25

Other management tools/systems

• libvirt provides an API for managing QEMU/KVM (and other hypervisors) exposed in C, Perl, Python, OCaml, Ruby, and Java, with bridges to AMQP/QMF and DMTF CIM.
• virt-install, virt-clone, virt-convert a set of command line tools for provisioning new VMs from install media, existing VMs and appliances, respectively. See also 'virsh' command line shell with libvirt.
• virt-manager, Virtual Machine Manager. A graphical desktop management app using libvirt. Can manage a single local host, or securely multiple remote hosts. Support QEMU, KVM, Xen and more
• Ganeti, a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM and other Open Source software.

BIOSes and firmware used by QEMU

• The PC BIOS from the Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project
• The LGPL VGA BIOS project
• The OpenBIOS project, an open source Open Firmware implementation
• The OpenHackWare Open Firmware implementation
• Etherboot images from ROM-o-matic
• The EFI BIOS comes from the TianoCore Project. The QEMU port is available here
• OVMF provides UEFI support for IA32 (x86) and X64 (x86-64) guests.

Projects using the QEMU code

• The Xen virtual machine monitor
• KVM, Kernel-based Virtual Machine for Linux
• VirtualBox, an open source x86 virtualizer.
• SerialICE, a system software debugger
• MARSSx86, a cycle accurate accurate x86 simulator that uses QEMU

External Documentation

• Book "qemu-kvm & libvirt", 4. Edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-8370-0876-0, http://qemu-buch.de
• #qemu the (unofficial) wiki of QEMU
• Wiki about the QEMU MIPS target
• IBM Linux Blueprint: Quick Start Guide for installing and running KVM
• IBM Linux Blueprint: The Developer's Approach to Installing and Managing KVMs

Other emulators

• The Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project
• PTLsim, a cycle accurate x86 microprocessor simulator
• The EM86 x86 emulator on Alpha-Linux
• The bintrans Dynamic Binary Translator
• MINDE, an emulator for some old x86 demos
• SkyEye, an ARM simulator
• Softgun, an ARM simulator
• SIMH, The Computer History Simulation Project
• GXemul, emulator for multiple systems including m88k
• ARAnyM, emulator for Atari ST/TT/Falcon family
• Hercules, S/370, S/390 and z/Arch emulator
• The PearPC PowerPC Architecture Emulator (development stalled)
• TME, The (Sun) Machine Emulator

Related links

• Free Operating System Zoo: many disk images with free OSes (very old)
• Zaurus boot images: Zaurus pda boot images for QEMU
• QEMU-SystemC, a hardware co-simulator
• Linaro QEMU page: ARM TODOs and links
• PLEX86, x86- Virtual Machine (VM) Program
• Valgrind, an open-source memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux
• TLMu: TLMu - A SystemC TLM-2.0 integration of QEMU