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QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance.

When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. QEMU supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, QEMU can virtualize x86, server and embedded PowerPC, and S390 guests.

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News

Dec 11th, 2012

• QEMU version 1.2.2 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Dec 3rd, 2012

• QEMU version 1.3.0 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Nov 26th, 2012

• QEMU version 1.3.0-rc1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Nov 20th, 2012

• QEMU version 1.2.1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Nov 19th, 2012

• QEMU version 1.3.0-rc0 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Sep 5th, 2012

• QEMU version 1.2.0 is out. See the Download page for more information.

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