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, provided by Prashant Satish
Precompiled Windows versions (32 and 64 bit), provided by Stefan Weil
Precompiled Windows versions (currently only up to 2.6.0), provided by Eric Lassauge
Slackware packages

Alternate QEMU repositories / Forks

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)
PA-RISC target — early stages (needs linux-user rework for stack growing up)
kqemu archive includes patches for the former acceleration module
qemu-linaro - obsolete (but includes OMAP3 support)
Blackfin target (maintained by Mike Frysinger)
pnacl port Portable Native Client (PNaCl) port runs in Chrome web browser
6502 CPU target
AT91SAM9263 emulation
Android Goldfish
Android Ranchu
Imagination META
Macintosh 128k
QEMU with Windbg stub

GUIs and 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
AQEMU GUI for QEMU and KVM (Linux), docs (German)
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.
qemu-java, a full Java API to QEmu's QApi, commandline image manipulation. This is a good foundation API for building integration testing systems, richer QEmu-based applications, and so forth.

Legacy GUI front ends

These projects seem to be abandoned, thus these GUIs likely do not work with the latest version of QEMU anymore and the links are only provided here for historical reasons:

QtEmu, a graphical user interface for QEMU written in Qt4 for Linux and Windows
qemudo, QEMU Web Interface
JavaQemu, a GUI for QEMU written in Java

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 (archived 2008-01-24) Open Firmware implementation
SLOF, the Slimline Open Firmware, is used in QEMU for the "pseries" machine
Etherboot images from ROM-o-matic
The EFI BIOS comes from the TianoCore Project.
OVMF provides UEFI support for IA32 (x86) and X64 (x86-64) guests.
U-Boot, a firmware which is used for some PowerPC boards in QEMU

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
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
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