QEMU getting started

QEMU Information

QEMU stands for Quick EMUlator.

It is free and open source software. QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to achieve good emulation speed. 1

Main QEMU site: qemu.org

Introduction to QEMU is a good comprehensive description of QEMU.

Installing QEMU

apt-get install qemu-system-arm
apt-get install qemu-utils
apt-get install qemu-efi-aarch64

Installing packages to build QEMU on Ubuntu

apt-get update
apt-get build-dep -y qemu
apt-get install -y libfdt-dev flex bison

QEMU Development

The mailing list qemu-devel is a good place to start.

  1. Reference qemu.org