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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.

News

Sep 7, 2010

• QEMU version 0.13.0-rc1 is out (ChangeLog is coming soon).

July 28, 2010

• QEMU version 0.13.0-rc0 is out (ChangeLog is coming soon).

July 23, 2010

• QEMU version 0.12.5 is out (ChangeLog).

May 18, 2010

• We will be hosting our first Bug Day on June 2nd, 2010. See the Bug Day page for more information about how to participate!

May 4, 2010

• QEMU version 0.12.4 is out (ChangeLog).

Feb 23, 2010

• QEMU version 0.12.3 is out (ChangeLog).

Jan 19, 2010

• QEMU version 0.12.2 is out (ChangeLog).

Dec 20, 2009

• QEMU version 0.12.1 is out (ChangeLog).

Dec 12, 2009

• QEMU version 0.12.0-rc2 is out (ChangeLog).

Dec 6, 2009

• QEMU version 0.12.0-rc1 is out (ChangeLog).

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