Author
Fabrice Bellard
Project active since
Language
C
Platforms
IA-32
License
GNU GPL v2
Website
QEMU is a hosted virtual machine monitor: it emulates CPUs through dynamic binary translation and provides a set of device models, enabling it to run a variety of unmodified guest operating systems. It also can be used with KVM to run virtual machines at near-native speed (requiring hardware virtualization extensions on x86 machines). QEMU can also do CPU emulation for user-level processes, allowing applications compiled for one architecture to run on another.
QEMU runs on following host operating systems:
- Linux
- Microsoft Windows
- MacOS
- some other Unix platforms