qemu
Machine emulator and virtualizer
QEMU is a generic machine emulator and virtualizer.
When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine---e.g., your own PC. By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance.
When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. QEMU supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, QEMU can virtualize x86, server and embedded PowerPC, and S390 guests.
- Versions: 8.2.2
- Website: https://www.qemu.org
- Licenses: GPL 2
- Package source: gnu/packages/virtualization.scm
- Builds: See build status
- Issues: See known issues
Installation
Install the latest version of qemu as follows:
guix install qemu
Or install a particular version:
guix install qemu@8.2.2
You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.