Welcome to QEMU’s documentation!

Contents:

• About QEMU
  • Supported build platforms
  • Emulation
  • Deprecated features
  • Removed features
  • License
• System Emulation
  • Introduction
  • Invocation
  • Device Emulation
  • Keys in the graphical frontends
  • Keys in the character backend multiplexer
  • QEMU Monitor
  • Disk Images
  • QEMU virtio-net standby (net_failover)
  • Direct Linux Boot
  • Generic Loader
  • Guest Loader
  • QEMU Barrier Client
  • VNC security
  • TLS setup for network services
  • Providing secret data to QEMU
  • Client authorization
  • GDB usage
  • Relocating code
  • Record/replay
  • Managed start up options
  • Managing device boot order with bootindex properties
  • Virtual CPU hotplug
  • Persistent reservation managers
  • QEMU System Emulator Targets
  • Security
  • Multi-process QEMU
  • Confidential Guest Support
• 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
• System Emulation Management and Interoperability
  • Barrier client protocol
  • Dirty Bitmaps and Incremental Backup
  • D-Bus
  • D-Bus VMState
  • D-Bus display
  • Live Block Device Operations
  • Persistent reservation helper protocol
  • QEMU Machine Protocol Specification
  • 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
  • Virtio balloon memory statistics
  • VNC LED state Pseudo-encoding
• System Emulation Guest Hardware Specifications
  • PCI IDs for QEMU
  • QEMU PCI serial devices
  • QEMU PCI test device
  • 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
  • QEMU<->ACPI BIOS CPU hotplug interface
  • QEMU<->ACPI BIOS memory hotplug interface
  • QEMU<->ACPI BIOS PCI hotplug interface
  • QEMU<->ACPI BIOS NVDIMM interface
  • ACPI ERST DEVICE
  • QEMU/Guest Firmware Interface for AMD SEV and SEV-ES
  • QEMU Firmware Configuration (fw_cfg) Device
• Developer Information
  • QEMU Community Processes
  • QEMU Build and Test System
  • Internal QEMU APIs
  • Internal Subsystem Information
  • TCG Emulation