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== General ==

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! Name

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| x86, x86-64, ARMv7, AArch64

| x86 (Intel 8086 to Pentium II and compatible)

| [[Windows]], [[Linux]], [[macOS]]

| [[Windows]], [[Linux]], [[DOS]], [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]], [[OS/2]], [[Haiku (operating system)|Haiku]]

| {{open source|[[GPL version 3]]}}

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| Same as host

| No host OS, Linux or Windows as dev. hosts

| PikeOS native, Linux, [[ELinOS]], [[Windows]], POSIX, AUTOSAR, Android, [[RTEMS]], [[OSEK]], [[ARINC 653]] APEX, [[ITRON]]

| {{Proprietary}}

|-

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| x86, x86-64, IA-64, PowerPC, SPARC 32/64, ARM, S/390, MIPS

| x86, x86-64, Alpha, ARM, CRIS, LM32, [[M68k]], MicroBlaze, MIPS, OpenRisc32, PowerPC, S/390, SH4, SPARC 32/64, Unicore32, Xtensa

| Windows ("experimental"<ref name="qemu-windows-host" />), Linux, macOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS

| Changes regularly<ref name="QEMU" />

| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL]]/[[LGPL]]}}

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! VMM

| [[OpenBSD]]

| x86-64

| x86, x86-64

| same as host

| OpenBSD

| OpenBSD and Linux guests

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== Features ==

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! [[Bochs]]<ref>{{cite web |url=httphttps://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/harddisk-modes.html |title=8.19. Disk Image Modes |publisher=Bochs.sourceforge.net |access-date=2013-10-08}}</ref>

| {{yes}}<!-- floppy -->

| {{yes}}<!-- ISO -->

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== Other features ==

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| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{N/A|N/A}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{n/a|Not needed}}

| {{yes}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36803/zonelimit.html|title=beadm in Non-Global Zones – Creating and Administering Oracle Solaris 11.2 Boot Environments|date=11 November 2014|work=oracle.com}}</ref>

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{n/a|Not needed}}

| {{n/a|Not needed}}

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! [[DosBox]]

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| {{no}}

| {{dunno}}

| ?

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

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| {{no}}

| {{dunno}}

| ?

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| Supported with [[VMGL]]<ref name="VMGL"/>

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! [[z/VM]]

| {{yes}}

| {{N/A|Not applicable}}

| {{yes}} (zURM/HMC)

| {{yes}}

| {{N/A|Not applicable}}

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| {{yes}} (2011)

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| {{N/A|Not applicable}}

| {{N/A|Not applicable}}

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! z [[LPAR]]s

| {{yes}}

| {{N/A|Not applicable}}

| {{yes}} (HMC)

| {{yes}}

| {{N/A|Not applicable}}

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| {{yes}} (2007)

| <!-- shared folders -->

| {{N/A|Not applicable}}

| {{N/A|Not applicable}}

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! Name

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<ref name="arstechnica">{{cite web |last = Protalinski |first = Emil |url = https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/08/microsoft-hyper-v-server-2008-r2-arrives-for-free |title = Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 arrives for free |publisher = Ars Technica |date = 2009-09-01 |access-date = 2013-10-08 }}</ref>

<ref name="bochs1">{{cite web |url = httphttps://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/supported-platforms.html |title = 1.8. Supported Platforms |website = Bochs.sourceforge.net |access-date = 2015-02-22 }}</ref>

<ref name="bochs2">{{cite web |url = httphttps://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/compiling.html |title = 3.4. Compiling Bochs |website = Bochs.sourceforge.net |access-date = 2015-02-22 }}</ref>

<ref name="bhyve1">{{cite web |url = https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/Windows |title = Bhyve supports Windows |access-date = 2015-12-22}}</ref>

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<ref name="rhel.kvm.arm">{{cite web |url = https://access.redhat.com/articles/2690601&context=etd |title = Development Preview of KVM Virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM |website = redhat.com |access-date = 2017-05-15 }}</ref>

<ref name="qemu-windows-host">{{ cite web | url = https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/ | title = QEMU Binaries for Windows (64 bit) | website = qemu.weilnetz.de | access-date = 2025-08-18 }}</ref>

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