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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

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.

Sep 4th, 2012

• QEMU version 1.2.0-rc3 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Aug 30rd, 2012

• QEMU version 1.2.0-rc2 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Aug 23rd, 2012

• QEMU version 1.2.0-rc1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Aug 16th, 2012

• QEMU version 1.2.0-rc0 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Jul 17th, 2012

• QEMU version 1.1.1-1 is out. See the Download page for more information. This is the same as the 1.1.1 release except it's correctly compressed with bzip2.

Jul 12th, 2012

• QEMU version 1.1.1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Jun 5th, 2012

• It was discovered that the wrong version number was used in the 1.1 release. A new tarball has been published with the correct version number. See the Download page for more information.

Jun 1st, 2012

• QEMU version 1.1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

May 31, 2012

• QEMU version 1.1-rc4 is out. See the Download page for more information.

May 22, 2012

• QEMU version 1.1-rc3 is out. See the Download page for more information.

May 15, 2012

• QEMU version 1.1-rc2 is out. See the Download page for more information.

May 10, 2012

• QEMU version 1.1-rc1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

Feb 17, 2012

• QEMU version 1.0.1 is out. See the Download page for more information.

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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