Qemu
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Qemu is a machine emulator & system virtualizer.
Qemu can emulat numerious CPU's and machine types. Most are geared towards running Linux, the x86/x64 emulators are the most flexable, and most well used. The current version is 0.10.5.
As of 0.10.5 the following machine emulators are available:
- i386-softmmu
- x86_64-softmmu
- arm-softmmu
- cris-softmmu
- m68k-softmmu
- mips-softmmu
- mipsel-softmmu
- mips64-softmmu
- mips64el-softmmu
- ppc-softmmu
- ppcemb-softmmu
- ppc64-softmmu
- sh4-softmmu
- sh4eb-softmmu
- sparc-softmmu
Running Qemu
Qemu is driven by command line arguments... The first thing that you typically do is setup a virtual hard disk with qemu-img. Once your disk is ready then you can configure each system emulator with various flags.
See Also
- Qemu's main site - http://www.qemu.org/
- Win32 builds of Qemu including ready to run images http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/
