(May 12, 2004) Official OS support table.
(May 8, 2004) QEMU version 0.5.5 is out. (Changelog). Much improved Windows 98 support. VGA support in PowerPC PREP target.
(Apr 26, 2004) QEMU version 0.5.4 is out. (Changelog). This is the first version which is able to install and run Windows XP (experimental). This is also the first version which is able to boot a PowerPC PREP Linux kernel on a PC.
(Apr 4, 2004) QEMU version 0.5.3 is out. (Changelog). VESA VBE support. Many bug fixes. Initial Win32 port. New monitor with Virtual Machine save/restore and debugging features.
(Jul 10, 2003) New benchmarks comparing QEMU to Bochs and Valgrind with the nbench benchmark.
QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to achieve good emulation speed.
QEMU has two operating modes:The target CPU is the one QEMU emulates. User emulation means emulation of user code in order to launch Linux processes. System emulation means full CPU emulation in order to launch an Operating System.
| Target CPU | User emulation | System emulation |
|---|---|---|
| x86 | OK | OK |
| ARM | OK | Not supported |
| SPARC | Testing | Not supported |
| PowerPC | OK | Testing |
The host CPU is the one which executes QEMU.
| Host CPU | Status |
|---|---|
| x86 | OK |
| PowerPC | OK |
| Alpha | Testing |
| Sparc32 | Testing |
| ARM | Testing |
| S390 | Testing |
| Sparc64 | Dev only |
| ia64 | Dev only |
| m68k | Dev only |
Note: Testing means that the emulator is working on most of the regression tests. No big application has been tested so far.
| File | Comment |
| qemu-0.5.5.tar.gz | Source code |
| qemu-0.5.5-i386.tar.gz | Binary distribution for linux-i386 (untar it in '/'). |
Windows version available here.
| qemu-gnemul-0.5.1.tar.gz | Binary distribution of various systems libraries to run x86, ARM, SPARC and PowerPC executables with QEMU (/usr/gnemul/qemu-xxx directory). |
| qemu-tests-0.5.1.tar.gz | Binary distribution of dynamically linked Busybox and ash executables for x86, ARM, SPARC and PowerPC to test QEMU (put in qemu/tests directory, you also need qemu-gnemul). |
| wine-20020411.tar.gz | Binary distribution of wine in /usr/local/wine-i386 (you also need qemu-gnemul). |
| linux-test-0.5.1.tar.gz (6 MB) | QEMU Linux demonstration (containing the bootable Linux image linux.img) (read the documentation) |
| freedos.img.bz2 | FreeDOS disk image (modified version from the Bochs project) |
| small.ffs.bz2 | Small NetBSD Image (thanx to Nicolas Ollinger) |