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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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Dec 1, 2011

• QEMU version 1.0 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Nov 28, 2011

• QEMU version 1.0-rc4 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Nov 21, 2011

• QEMU version 1.0-rc3 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Nov 14, 2011

• QEMU version 1.0-rc2 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Nov 7, 2011

• QEMU version 1.0-rc1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

August 4, 2011

• QEMU version 0.15.0-rc2 is out. See the Download page for more information.

July 29, 2011

• QEMU version 0.15.0-rc1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

May 7, 2011

• QEMU version 0.14.1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Feb 17, 2011

• QEMU version 0.14.0 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Feb 15, 2011

• QEMU version 0.14.0-rc2 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Feb 8, 2011

• QEMU version 0.14.0-rc1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Feb 2, 2011

• QEMU version 0.14.0-rc0 is out. See the Download page for more information.

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