Links

Development

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

Unofficial QEMU binaries

• QEMU on Windows provides precompiled QEMU versions (< 0.9.0) for Windows.
• TAKEDA Toshiya provides precompiled QEMU versions (> 0.9.1) for Windows.
• RPMs for Fedora and RHEL
• Slackware packages

Alternate QEMU repositories

• Openmoko (Neo1973) target
• OpenSolaris support
• Malc's GIT repository including audio improvements, an x86 interpreter (useful for MSDOS demos heavily using self modifying code), full A/V capture
• AR7 routers, TCG interpreter (maintained by Stefan Weil)
• Q repository (Mac OS X port)
• Z80 target
• PA-RISC target
• Mamona project
• MeeGo QEMU

GUI Front Ends

• AQEMU GUI for QEMU and KVM (Linux), documentation (German)
• Qemu Manager for Windows (and Wine)
• Q is a Mac OS X port of QEMU 0.9.1 with a nice GUI
• QEMoon, a QEMU gui frontend for Linux and Windows in Java using the Eclipse framework
• qemudo, QEMU Web Interface
• QtEmu, a graphical user interface for QEMU written in Qt4 for Linux and Windows
• QEMU Manager on Windows by Dave Reynolds.

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

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

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
• The QEMU forum

Related Links

• Free Operating System Zoo: many disk images with free OSes (very old)
• The Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project
• Valgrind, an open-source memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux
• 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
• MicroLib, a simulator for computer architecture research (PowerPC and Alpha simulation)
• SkyEye, an ARM simulator
• Softgun, an ARM simulator
• SIMH, The Computer History Simulation Project
• The PearPC PowerPC Architecture Emulator (development stalled)
• PLEX86, x86- Virtual Machine (VM) Program
• TME, The (Sun) Machine Emulator
• QEMU-SystemC, a hardware co-simulator