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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 performance 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, S390, 32-bit and 64-bit ARM, and MIPS guests.

QEMU is a member of Software Freedom Conservancy.

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November 23rd, 2016

• QEMU version 2.8.0-rc1 is out! See the Download page for more information.

November 15th, 2016

• QEMU version 2.8.0-rc0 is out! See the Download page for more information.

September 29th, 2016

• QEMU version 2.6.2 is out! See the Download page for more information.

September 2nd, 2016

• Blogs from people involved in QEMU development are syndicated at http://planet.virt-tools.org/

September 2nd, 2016

• QEMU version 2.7.0 is out! See the Download page for more information.

August 30th, 2016

• QEMU version 2.7.0-rc5 is out! See the Download page for more information.

August 22nd, 2016

• QEMU version 2.7.0-rc4 is out! See the Download page for more information.

August 17th, 2016

• QEMU version 2.6.1 is out! See the Download page for more information.

August 16th, 2016

• QEMU version 2.7.0-rc3 is out! See the Download page for more information.

August 8th, 2016

• QEMU version 2.7.0-rc2 is out! See the Download page for more information.

July 29th, 2016

• QEMU version 2.7.0-rc1 is out! See the Download page for more information.

July 22nd, 2016

• QEMU version 2.7.0-rc0 is out! See the Download page for more information.

May 11th, 2016

• QEMU version 2.6.0 is out! See the Download page for more information.

May 9th, 2016

• QEMU version 2.6.0-rc5 is out. See the Download page for more information.

May 2nd, 2016

• QEMU version 2.6.0-rc4 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Apr 21st, 2016

• QEMU version 2.6.0-rc3 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Apr 14th, 2016

• QEMU version 2.6.0-rc2 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Mar 1, 2016

• QEMU is participating in Google Summer of Code 2016 and Outreachy May-August 2016 internship programs. View the project ideas lists here: GSoC and Outreachy.

Dec 16th, 2015

• QEMU version 2.5.0 is out! See the Download page for more information.

Dec 11th, 2015

• QEMU version 2.5.0-rc4 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Dec 7th, 2015

• QEMU version 2.5.0-rc3 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Nov 27th, 2015

• QEMU version 2.5.0-rc2 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Nov 20th, 2015

• QEMU version 2.5.0-rc1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Nov 13th, 2015

• QEMU version 2.5.0-rc0 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Nov 3rd, 2015

• QEMU version 2.4.1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Sep 22nd, 2015

• QEMU version 2.4.0.1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Aug 11th, 2015

• QEMU version 2.4.0 is out. See the Download page for more information.

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