Welcome to QEMU’s documentation!

Contents:

• System Emulation
  • Quick Start
  • Invocation
  • Keys in the graphical frontends
  • Keys in the character backend multiplexer
  • QEMU Monitor
  • Disk Images
  • Network emulation
  • QEMU virtio-net standby (net_failover)
  • USB emulation
  • NVMe Emulation
  • Inter-VM Shared Memory device
  • Direct Linux Boot
  • Generic Loader
  • Guest Loader
  • VNC security
  • TLS setup for network services
  • GDB usage
  • Managed start up options
  • Virtual CPU hotplug
  • virtio pmem
  • Persistent reservation managers
  • QEMU System Emulator Targets
  • Security
  • Multi-process QEMU
  • Deprecated features
  • Removed features
  • Supported build platforms
  • License
• User Mode Emulation
  • QEMU User space emulator
• Tools
  • QEMU disk image utility
  • QEMU Storage Daemon
  • QEMU Disk Network Block Device Server
  • QEMU persistent reservation helper
  • QEMU SystemTap trace tool
  • QEMU 9p virtfs proxy filesystem helper
  • QEMU virtio-fs shared file system daemon
• System Emulation Management and Interoperability
  • Dirty Bitmaps and Incremental Backup
  • D-Bus
  • D-Bus VMState
  • Live Block Device Operations
  • Persistent reservation helper protocol
  • QEMU Guest Agent
  • QEMU Guest Agent Protocol Reference
  • QEMU QMP Reference Manual
  • QEMU Storage Daemon QMP Reference Manual
  • Vhost-user Protocol
  • Vhost-user-gpu Protocol
  • Vhost-vdpa Protocol
• System Emulation Guest Hardware Specifications
  • POWER9 XIVE interrupt controller
  • XIVE for sPAPR (pseries machines)
  • NUMA mechanics for sPAPR (pseries machines)
  • How the pseries Linux guest calculates NUMA distances
  • pseries NUMA mechanics
  • Legacy (5.1 and older) pseries NUMA mechanics
  • QEMU and ACPI BIOS Generic Event Device interface
  • QEMU TPM Device
  • APEI tables generating and CPER record
• Developer Information
  • Code of Conduct
  • Conflict Resolution Policy
  • The QEMU build system architecture
  • QEMU Coding Style
  • QEMU and Kconfig
  • Testing in QEMU
  • Fuzzing
  • Control-Flow Integrity (CFI)
  • Load and Store APIs
  • The memory API
  • Migration
  • Atomic operations in QEMU
  • QEMU and the stable process
  • QTest Device Emulation Testing Framework
  • Decodetree Specification
  • Secure Coding Practices
  • Translator Internals
  • TCG Instruction Counting
  • Tracing
  • Introduction
  • vCPU Scheduling
  • Shared Data Structures
  • Memory Consistency
  • QEMU TCG Plugins
  • Bitwise operations
  • Reset in QEMU: the Resettable interface
  • Booting from real channel-attached devices on s390x
  • Modelling a clock tree in QEMU
  • The QEMU Object Model (QOM)
  • block-coroutine-wrapper
  • Multi-process QEMU