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Screenshot by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nurnware">User:Nurnware</a> (<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qemu_linux.png">Source</a>)"><img src="screenshots/800px-Qemu_linux.png" alt="Screenshot: QEMU running the ReactOS operating system on Linux."/></a> </div> <h3>Full-system<br class="only-desktop"> emulation</h3> <p>Run operating systems for any machine, on any supported architecture</p> </section> <section class="4u"> <div class="pennant"> <a href="screenshots/qemu-arm.png" class="colorbox" title="QEMU running a 32-bit ARM binary on a 64-bit Linux system." data-title="QEMU running a 32-bit ARM binary on a 64-bit Linux system."><img src="screenshots/qemu-arm.png" alt="Screenshot: QEMU running a 32-bit ARM binary on a 64-bit Linux system."/></a> </div> <h3>User-mode<br class="only-desktop"> emulation</h3> <p>Run programs for another Linux/BSD target, on any supported architecture</p> </section> <section class="4u"> <div class="pennant"> <a href="screenshots/qemu-advent-calendar-osv-redis.png" class="colorbox" title="The dashboard of the OSv operating system, running in the background as a QEMU/KVM process." data-title="The dashboard of the <a href="http://osv.io">OSv</a> operating system, running in the background as a QEMU/KVM process. Courtesy of Dor Laor (<a href="http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/#day-11">Source</a>)"><img src="screenshots/qemu-advent-calendar-osv-redis.png" alt="Screenshot: The dashboard of the OSv operating system, running in the background as a QEMU/KVM process."/></a> </div> <h3>Virtualization</h3> <p>Run KVM and Xen virtual machines with near native performance</p> </section> <section style="display: none;"> <a href="screenshots/qemu-advent-calendar-s390-moon-buggy.png" class="colorbox" title="QEMU emulating an ASCII art game for the System z (s390) mainframe." data-title="QEMU emulating an ASCII art game for the System z (s390) mainframe. Courtesy of Alexander Graf (<a href="http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/#day-22">Source</a>)"><img src="screenshots/qemu-advent-calendar-s390-moon-buggy.png" alt="Screenshot: QEMU emulating an ASCII art game for the System z (s390) mainframe."/></a> <a href="screenshots/qemu-advent-calendar-second-reality.png" class="colorbox" title="QEMU running Second Reality, a well-known PC demo from 1993, inside the FreeDOS operating system." data-title="QEMU running Second Reality, a well-known PC demo from 1993, inside the FreeDOS operating system. Courtesy of Paolo Bonzini (<a href="http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/#day-13">Source</a>)"><img src="screenshots/qemu-advent-calendar-second-reality.png" alt="Screenshot: QEMU running Second Reality, a well-known PC demo from 1993, inside the FreeDOS operating system."/></a> </section> <script src="./assets/js/object-fit.js"></script> <script> window.hasColorBox = false; $(window).on("load resize", function() { isMobile = window.innerWidth < 700; if (isMobile && window.hasColorBox) { window.hasColorBox = false; $.colorbox.remove(); } else if (!isMobile && !window.hasColorBox) { window.hasColorBox = true; $('.colorbox').colorbox({ 'rel': '.colorbox', 'title': function() { return $(this).attr("data-title"); } }); } }); // make links to images inactive, except through the colorbox $('.colorbox').on("click.random-namespace", function() { return window.hasColorBox; }) </script> </div> </div> </div> <!-- Main --> <div id="releases"> <header> <h2>Latest releases</h2> </header> <div class="container"> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://download.qemu.org/qemu-10.0.0-rc2.tar.xz">10.0.0-rc2</a></strong> Apr 1st 2025<br><a href="https://download.qemu.org/qemu-10.0.0-rc2.tar.xz.sig">signature</a> — <a href="https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.0">changes</a></li> <li><strong><a href="https://download.qemu.org/qemu-9.2.3.tar.xz">9.2.3</a></strong> Mar 26th 2025<br><a href="https://download.qemu.org/qemu-9.2.3.tar.xz.sig">signature</a> — <a href="https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/9.2">changes</a></li> <li><strong><a href="https://download.qemu.org/qemu-9.1.3.tar.xz">9.1.3</a></strong> Feb 8th 2025<br><a href="https://download.qemu.org/qemu-9.1.3.tar.xz.sig">signature</a> — <a href="https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/9.1">changes</a></li> <li><strong><a href="https://download.qemu.org/qemu-8.2.10.tar.xz">8.2.10</a></strong> Mar 26th 2025<br><a href="https://download.qemu.org/qemu-8.2.10.tar.xz.sig">signature</a> — <a href="https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/8.2">changes</a></li> <li><strong><a href="https://download.qemu.org/qemu-7.2.17.tar.xz">7.2.17</a></strong> Mar 26th 2025<br><a href="https://download.qemu.org/qemu-7.2.17.tar.xz.sig">signature</a> — <a href="https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/7.2">changes</a></li> </ul> <p><a class="button" href="https://download.qemu.org/">Full list of releases</a><p> </div> </div> <script> $(window).on("scroll", function() { isScroll = window.scrollY < 120; jqBody = $('body'); if (isScroll && jqBody.hasClass('fixed')) jqBody.removeClass('fixed') else if (!isScroll && !jqBody.hasClass('fixed')) jqBody.addClass('fixed') }); </script> <div id="footer"> <div id="external-links"> <ul class="style"> <li><a href="http://qemu-advent-calendar.org">Advent calendar</a></li> <li><a href="https://planet.virt-tools.org/">Blog planet</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linux-kvm.org/">KVM</a></li> <li><a href="http://libguestfs.org/">Libguestfs</a></li> <li><a href="https://libvirt.org/">Libvirt</a></li> <li><a href="https://xenproject.org">Xen</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="edit-page"> <a href="https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu-web/-/blob/master/index.html">page source</a> </div> <div id="conservancy"> QEMU is a member of <a href="./conservancy/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a> </div> <div id="sponsors"> QEMU has <a href="./sponsors/">sponsors</a> </div> <div id="licenses"> <a href="./license.html">Website licenses</a> </div> </div> </body> </html>