QEMU System Emulator Targets

QEMU is a generic emulator and it emulates many machines. Most of the options are similar for all machines. Specific information about the various targets are mentioned in the following sections.

Contents:

• x86 System emulator
  • Board-specific documentation
    • ‘microvm’ virtual platform (microvm)
      • Supported devices
      • Limitations
      • Using the microvm machine type
        • Machine-specific options
        • Boot options
        • Running a microvm-based VM
        • Triggering a guest-initiated shut down
    • i440fx PC (pc-i440fx, pc)
      • Peripherals
  • Recommendations for KVM CPU model configuration on x86 hosts
    • Two ways to configure CPU models with QEMU / KVM
    • Preferred CPU models for Intel x86 hosts
    • Important CPU features for Intel x86 hosts
    • Preferred CPU models for AMD x86 hosts
    • Important CPU features for AMD x86 hosts
    • Default x86 CPU models
    • Other non-recommended x86 CPUs
  • Syntax for configuring CPU models
    • QEMU command line
    • Libvirt guest XML
  • OS requirements
• PowerPC System emulator
• Sparc32 System emulator
• Sparc64 System emulator
• MIPS System emulator
  • Supported CPU model configurations on MIPS hosts
    • Supported CPU models for MIPS32 hosts
    • Supported CPU models for MIPS64 hosts
    • Supported CPU models for nanoMIPS hosts
    • Preferred CPU models for MIPS hosts
  • nanoMIPS System emulator
• Arm System emulator
  • Choosing a board model
  • Board-specific documentation
    • Arm Integrator/CP (integratorcp)
    • Arm MPS2 boards (mps2-an385, mps2-an386, mps2-an500, mps2-an505, mps2-an511, mps2-an521)
    • Arm Musca boards (musca-a, musca-b1)
    • Arm Realview boards (realview-eb, realview-eb-mpcore, realview-pb-a8, realview-pbx-a9)
    • Arm Server Base System Architecture Reference board (sbsa-ref)
      • Supported devices
    • Arm Versatile boards (versatileab, versatilepb)
    • Arm Versatile Express boards (vexpress-a9, vexpress-a15)
    • Aspeed family boards (*-bmc, ast2500-evb, ast2600-evb)
      • Supported devices
      • Missing devices
      • Boot options
    • Canon A1100 (canon-a1100)
    • Freecom MusicPal (musicpal)
    • Gumstix Connex and Verdex (connex, verdex)
    • Nokia N800 and N810 tablets (n800, n810)
    • Nuvoton iBMC boards (npcm750-evb, quanta-gsj)
      • Supported devices
      • Missing devices
      • Boot options
    • Orange Pi PC (orangepi-pc)
      • Supported devices
      • Limitations
      • Boot options
      • Machine-specific options
      • Running mainline Linux
      • Orange Pi PC images
      • Running U-Boot
      • Running NetBSD
      • Orange Pi PC acceptance tests
    • Palm Tungsten|E PDA (cheetah)
    • Raspberry Pi boards (raspi0, raspi1ap, raspi2b, raspi3ap, raspi3b)
      • Implemented devices
      • Missing devices
    • Sharp XScale-based PDA models (akita, borzoi, spitz, terrier, tosa)
    • Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 (collie)
    • Siemens SX1 (sx1, sx1-v1)
    • Stellaris boards (lm3s6965evb, lm3s811evb)
    • ‘virt’ generic virtual platform (virt)
      • Supported devices
      • Machine-specific options
      • Linux guest kernel configuration
      • Hardware configuration information for bare-metal programming
    • Xilinx Versal Virt (xlnx-versal-virt)
      • Running
  • Arm CPU features
    • Arm CPU Features
    • CPU Feature Probing
      • A note about CPU feature dependencies
      • A note about CPU models and KVM
    • Using CPU Features
    • KVM VCPU Features
    • SVE CPU Properties
      • SVE CPU Property Dependencies and Constraints
      • SVE CPU Property Parsing Semantics
      • SVE CPU Property Examples
      • SVE CPU Property Recommendations
• ColdFire System emulator
• Xtensa System emulator
• s390x System emulator
  • Device support
    • Adjunct Processor (AP) Device
      • Introduction
      • AP Architectural Overview
      • Start Interpretive Execution (SIE) Instruction
        • Example 1: Valid configuration
        • Example 2: Valid configuration
        • Example 3: Invalid configuration
      • AP Matrix Configuration on Linux Host
        • Binding AP devices to device drivers
        • Configuring an AP matrix for a linux guest
        • Starting a Linux Guest Configured with an AP Matrix
        • Hot plug a vfio-ap device into a running guest
        • Hot unplug a vfio-ap device from a running guest
      • Example: Configure AP Matrices for Three Linux Guests
      • Limitations
    • The virtual channel subsystem
      • Examples
    • 3270 devices
      • Example configuration
      • Restrictions
    • Subchannel passthrough via vfio-ccw
      • Example configuration
        • Step 1: configure the host device
        • Step 2: configure QEMU
  • Architectural features
    • Boot devices on s390x
      • Booting with bootindex parameter
      • Booting without bootindex parameter
      • Booting from a network device
    • Protected Virtualization on s390x
      • Prerequisites
      • QEMU Settings
      • Boot Process
• RX System emulator
• AVR System emulator