--- title: QEMU Reviews meta_title: 'QEMU Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 29 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how QEMU works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 29 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-15' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # QEMU Reviews **Vendor:** Fabrice Bellard **Category:** [Remote Desktop Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/remote-desktop) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 29 ## About QEMU QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. ## QEMU Reviews ### 1. Powerful, extensible, emulator for virtualized workloads **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas R. | Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about QEMU?** QEMU runs on so many architectures and platforms, and it can be configured to run with minimal resources. This makes it perfect for embedding in hardware appliances with constrained resources. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** With all of the many supported platforms and features, there is a bit of a learning curve. QEMU can do anything...if you can figure out how to do it. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've used QEMU for local operating system development on workstations, running x86 software on mobile phones, and as a runtime for virtual appliances running on the edge and in the cloud. ### 2. A very handy tool when it comes to emulation and development before sillicon is ready. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajnesh K. | Software Engineer II, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2021 **What do you like best about QEMU?** best this is its open-source, and quite well maintained. Quite versatile support for different hardware emulation and one can add support for their own hardware quite easily. As its also used by virtualization solutions, it needs to fulfill different use cases which has helped in the overall evolution of the QEMU's design. One more good thing is the community is quite active. In case if you find a bug and send a patch for it, they will give it a nice review and will actively work on it so that it gets submitted in time. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** Not much to be honest. Documentation for getting started with QEMU can be sometimes a bit hard to move around. Its not because there is some problem with it, its mainly because of the rich feature set and tons of options. Finding the ones that you care about can be tricky sometimes. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** I would suggest to create a simple guide yourself of the options you need and their descriptions along with some example commands to run it. It comes handy while doing context switches. Specially when you are not in touch with the work for more than 2-3 weeks. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Once I used it to port our ARM hypervisor on RISC-V architecture. Even though the hypervisor extension for RISC-V is not released yet, but because its in the final stages, someone added QEMU support for it. So basically now we have a RISC-V hypervisor ready before even any chip is launched with that support. In short it allowed us to get ahead by almost 1.5-2 years in the market. I also one used it to port an RTOS on RISC-V architecture. Boards are quite expensive when they are released initially. ### 3. Have experience to use QEMU for Arm/AArch64/PowerPC/MIPS architecture user mode and system mode **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** hafiz b. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2020 **What do you like best about QEMU?** It has support for almost all architecture, almost complete machine virtualization with system mode QEMU. Very easy to configurable and its development community is very responsive. You can test your first bare metal support and Linux BSP on QEMU first without having actual hardware. QEMU also provide GDB stubs in order to debug the kernel and application workflow. It has various network option to configure with machine, for example User network which is minimal network support inside the QEMU system mode and QEMU bridge network support for real time networking. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** Not a better documentation for its command line options usage and sometime user need to go to source code to better understanding the options usage. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** QEMU has embedded board support with very easy to configurable and usage, Vast architecture and processor support for each architecture. You can test you bare metal and RTOS application workflow on System mode QEMU. You can boot Linux service stick image on QEMU System Mode and application workflow on User mode QEMU. It is easy to add new embedded board support, as it is open source project, so you can do development and submitted a bug to open community , iIn fact QEMU open community is very responsive. QEMU is a great tool for machine virtualization. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** I added the support of RTOS virtualization for ARM and AArch64 embedded sabrelite and Xilinx zcu102 board. It is very easy to test basic embedded bare metal support without any hard ware. ### 4. QEMU: A next-level virtualisation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aleksandar P. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2021 **What do you like best about QEMU?** QEMU has hardware-assisted virtualization. Can emulate many architectures. Extremely fast, near real-time. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** Difficult to use. Windows support is incomplete and limited. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** If you're looking for a way to virtualize and run almost any software/OS around, QEMU is the answer. Beside extensive hardware emulation, QEMU supports extensive CPU architecture emulation. This makes QEMU able to run nearly anything, from simple OS to advanced multi-machine infrastructure. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** QEMU can run nearly any software, thanks to extensive architecture emulation support. ### 5. QEMU is a game changer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adhitya N. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about QEMU?** The best part about QEMU is it's a user friendly software that allows us to run a different OS just like another application we use in our day to day life. It runs independently. The upsides of QEMU is its virtual hardware emulation. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** The software is a bit slow on a downside, may be it is related to the emulation being performed while running in the background which increases heat on the PC **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use ARM based architecture OS and I personally like to use MATLAB to design various circuits. Since the PC have 32 GB RAM, the processing would be more easy and smooth. ### 6. HD - QEMU as Hardware Emulator for Target Pre-integration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hardik D. | Lead/Developer : Software Systems - R & D - Rail Automation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2020 **What do you like best about QEMU?** - Possibility for emulation and target options - Emulation of target processor and execution capabilities. - Possibility of creating multiple target devices for a virtualization scenario - Lightweight stack compared to other emulation options. - **What do you dislike about QEMU?** - Terminal emulations get slower - The options for inclusion/connecting with popular tools. - Learning curve on setup of qemu as emulator - Can't get reliable performance (or even timing) test results via Qemu emulation One recommendation would be to improve Frequently asked Questions and documentations or atleast needs to improve Search forum outreach for unanswered questions. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** Plan your high level designs for jumping in. Choice of targets do become crucial, also consider the fallback options on the execution of tests that performance and timing dependent. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** - We used Qemu for Emulation of hardware devices. With Qemu emulation we had Minimal dependency for User on actual hardware. Thus, Optimized cost of execution and reduced time delay for target validation or issue debugging. - We also arranged pre-integration hardware tests with multiple target devices emulated via Qemu suite for a virtualization scenario of build integration and tests. That helped us in achieving test and validation for all scenarios except for the timing and performance analysis scenario. ### 7. An efficient software for emulating various architectures of processor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sharabesh J. | LEAP Associate , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2021 **What do you like best about QEMU?** The variety of architectures and possible emulation that this tool can provide **What do you dislike about QEMU?** There were not many blogs/websites to get to know more about this emulator. And it would be great if this is available as cloud service. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** We worked on integrating the processor emulation with the existing model simulator tool during my time in Mirabilis Design Inc, Chennai We also worked on streaming the process data into python application for analytics. ### 8. QEMU The Saviour **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2021 **What do you like best about QEMU?** As QEMU facilitates you to abstract your own hardware device, It is very useful to create your own device, abstract all the device-level functionality, and host system driver interaction without the actual hardware device. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** As the complexity of the device increases (Handling interrupts). It makes the QEMU bit slower than other Virtual machines **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was creating my own character device in order to understand the user system call, host-driver, and hardware interaction. Later I added Interrupt handling to my device to understand how interrupts are raised and processed at the device-level. ### 9. Best emulator I have ever used **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai Sri Anjana Kumar Raja G. | E, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2021 **What do you like best about QEMU?** Full system emulation for quick use. Specially in Android studio. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** Nothing in specific right now. Stops in middle some times but can be resolved by a restart. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Android emulation for testing my android apps. And running my C code on different architectures. ### 10. Best for testing on multiple platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kumar G. | Embedded Software Engineer 2, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2021 **What do you like best about QEMU?** Easy to launch can be used easily in scripts and also provides customization. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** Doesn't provide a clear error when it terminates or stops in middle. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing my c code on different platforms ### 11. I had used QEMU for my project during my masters studies. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harish Holenarsipura V. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2021 **What do you like best about QEMU?** The experience of using QEMU was really good especially virtualization of hardware. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** It would be better if we have better documentation of QEMU **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing ### 12. Great experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2021 **What do you like best about QEMU?** The commands to configure were easy to understand, documentation was good. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** Didn't find any downside. Mostly used QEMU for virtual machine creation and it was pretty seamless to use. Would have liked better collaboration with kubernetes. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Setting up a virtual machine. ### 13. I have used QEMU since I was a student and It helps me alot to learn without having a hardware. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sushant D. | Graduate Engineering Trainee, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2020 **What do you like best about QEMU?** I have used QEMU since I was student and It helps me a lot to learn without having hardware. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** Learning curve for QEMU is somewhat difficult. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** Please try it out, it's a thoughtful experience. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trying to install various operating systems on various architecture. ### 14. Helpful academic tool understand and play with different architecture. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2020 **What do you like best about QEMU?** the community support, ease of use, CLI and GUI both **What do you dislike about QEMU?** documentation USED TO BE weak point but is now improving **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** Great Community Support, Improving Documentation **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** helpful in a lot of different academic projects and used it to make decisions about which architecture to use in the projects ### 15. Try Tizen on Qemu ARM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Phil C. | Community Volunteer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** Qemu support various arch like ARM , It is useful for Tizen developers. However, if you would like to hack on Tizen on ARM, you’re able to do this now with or without any ARM Hardware. First install qemu-system-arm on your system (on debian family : sudo apt-get install qemu-system-arm ), then create or download armv7l disk image (tizen-common-wayland-arm-sunxi-20140527rzr.raw will also work). Since we wont boot on the image a kernel is needed just rebuild it or download it from upper link (vexpress has best support AFAIK)... **What do you dislike about QEMU?** Unfortunately QEmu and 3D Hw acceleration is not yet supported, qemu-yagl might be an alternative to consider, Tizen project is using the later one as emulator. An UI that mimic virtualbox could be a good improvement for reaching more users and help migration of some of them. Some vdi files can not be converted to qcow2 files? It would be also helpful to be able to split qcow2 files in smaller chucks and let QEmu merge them on the fly, similarly to vbox. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** try to use it along virtmanager if you're looking for a GUI, but learning cli will help soon or later **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** As said earlier it was useful to deliver an ARM image of Tizen:Common , we used the verstatile profile, this same rootfs could be then adapted to other devices (ie: renesas, windriver etc). ### 16. A great open source emulator **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Le T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** 1. QEMU is good at device emulation and has various platforms which is perfect for development or testing on different platforms. 2. QEMU's documentation is quite helpful and it is easy to use with just few lines of command lines. 3. With KVM, QEMU is so efficient that you can even expect native experience from it. 4. As an open source software, its community is active and friendly. Thanks to engineers in QEMU community for introducing me to open source world. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** I wonder if there are some GUI frontend for QEMU? It is a little hard for normal user to use with just command line. However, using Boxes in Fedora, it is handy to create and run a virtual machine. So maybe the community should introduce some helpful tools on the website. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** QEMU is a good product for daily use or development. You can learn a lot from its implementation. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a student majoring in Virtualization. We have been doing some researches with QEMU and KVM. QEMU meets our needs perfectly. ### 17. a generic and flexible machine emulator and virtualizer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** 亚东 . | Software Engineer, Semiconductors, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** QEMU is an emulator and virtualization machine that allows you to run a complete operating system as just another task on your desktop. It can be very useful for trying out different operating systems, testing software, and running applications that won't run on your desktop's native platform. QEMU runs on x86 systems running Linux, Microsoft Windows, and some UNIX platforms, and can host target systems from a range of different microprocessors as detailed on the QEMU website. QEMU has the advantage of being able to run either as a pure emulator or as a native virtual machine (on x86 / x86-64 hardware). **What do you dislike about QEMU?** Need KVM to lifting speed. Inadequate support for Microsoft Windows and some host operating systems (some analog of the system can only run). Not perfect to support unusual architecture. Difficult to install and use than other simulation software **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** good tool when no real device in hand. Better to use KVM or kqemu to help speed up. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulation of devices. ### 18. One of the best open source machine emulator **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhruv V. | Sr Embedded Engineer, Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** Qemu offers variety of architectures and platforms for emulation and it just works out of the box. One can run it on all major OSes ie, (windows, linux and Mac OS X) which makes it very popular irrespective of different OS users. One of key reason why it is one of the best emulation tool is that it achieves near native performance and it allows users to compare results without having to verify it on actual platform. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** Being an open source software, it doesn't have fancy UI and most of the work / parameters are passed as a command line. It could be very confusing for the first time users, specially ones without having prior command line experience. I have struggled myself quite a bit when I was introduced to Qemu. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** I would highly recommend Qemu to someone who is developing embedded systems / products and have to deal with various embedded platforms on a regular basis. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a sr Embedded Engineer in an automation firm, I often deal with various embedded architectures and platforms for variety of our product. Qemu allows me to emulate almost every platform on which I work such as cubieboard, Rpi and various others and hence eliminate the need of actually purchasing kits to get familiar with the platforms. It saves us a lot of time and cost. ### 19. QEMU review - Great emulator for various systems and platforms **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Derek R. | Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** The thing about QEMU is that it has so many things to like! First of all, it emulates pretty much any CPU you can think of. x86, ARM, PowerPC, and even some obscure RISC chips and custom chips. CPU emulation is stable for all platforms you can run QEMU on, and most systems run flawlessly. Operating system support is fantastic as well, with Windows, Linux, and even Mac running fairly well. Other systems, like Unix and OS/2 and the like, run great as well. Especially considering that before QEMU you couldn't really run any of those systems well on Windows or Linux. QEMU on Linux can run Windows at near native performance with VFIO, KVM, and a few other technologies switched on. If your CPU supports hardware virtualization, expect at least 95% of performance consistently. QEMU can not only virtualize environments, but can also do things that make using QEMU easy for beginners, things like hard drive image creation and disc image creation. There are probably 1,000 reasons to use QEMU (like Xbox support with XQEMU), but for now I will just say it is probably the best system virtualization package available at the moment. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** The only real complaints about QEMU that I can think of are all related to the Windows version. First, there is no GUI that comes with QEMU on any system you run it on. This means if you want to simply emulate or virtualize something real quick to show a friend, or if you are a less tech savvy person, you may not have an easy time using this software. Another issue is that KVM and VFIO don't have support on Windows. This slows down the Windows version considerably, and while you can still use most systems fine, Windows 10 or Mac OS X 10.10 will run fairly slow. Speaking of Mac OS X, it has some problems as well. Running Mac OS X on any virtualization or emulation platform is difficult regardless, but due to the measurements Apple has taken to fight piracy, and lock it's operating system to just Mac owners, this makes it extremely difficult to run properly on QEMU. However, I would think QEMU and VirtualBox should both be able to run the operating system by now, since Mac OS has been standardized in terms of hardware and simplified in terms of software. Emulating hardware is difficult though, so I don't necessarily blame the developers so much as I blame the lack of effort on Apple to provide support for emulation and virtualization to their platform so that developers and testers can run tests quickly and make sure Apple support is finalized before the next release. In addition, the GUI's that are available for QEMU are either outdated, don't allow use of all of QEMU's features, or are extremely difficult to look at or understand. This wouldn't be a problem with the original team normally, but I think QEMU really deserves a GUI. VirtualBox, VMware, Bochs, and PCem all have great GUI's. So I think a GUI in Qt or WxWidgets or something would really benefit this application. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** I would consider whether or not your users will need to have a simple interface or not, and what operating system they will be running on the host machine. If they need a GUI that runs on Windows, you should probably go with something like VirtualBox, VMware, or something similar. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick testing of applications on multiple systems, web browser tests, quick operating system support tests, embedded system and open system testing, compiling for game consoles and Linux systems, support for Solaris and BSD, and so much more. I know of more than a few business' that also use QEMU for hardware development, BIOS and firmware design, and electronic architectural projects. ### 20. Reliable, flexible and with great community support **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Georgios G. | IC Digital Design Engineer, Semiconductors, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** I am using Qemu in Linux systems and I have to state that I am really satisfied by it's user-friendliness (talking only about Linux users, I have no feedback for other systems). Besides that I find Qemu very reliable and robust. Supporting many platform backends is also a big pro when it comes to embedded applications. Last but not least I find it's open-source nature very attractive both because I can hack some of it's code and create a custom solution for a problem and because of it's big community. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** One downside of Qemu is it's performance in speed. Some more effort could be placed in this subject. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** If you are an embedded developer incorporate it and stick with it! It might come with some effort to understand it's internals, but at the end it worth it. Try to create some tools around it (scripts, utilities) that will help you automate tasks like creating specific images, testing and other. Interact and trust the community, you will learn a lot and it comes very handy when you hit a dead-end. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly I use Qemu in embedded applications. I can easily test software targeting for example ARM architecture. I can even automate testing easily and reliably. Moreover having custom hardware IP's and testing them alongside with an OS inside Qemu comes very handy. A good example is an IP meant to be used in smartphones. Having a virtual environment that runs Android using a custom IP is a great boost of productivity and cost beneficial. ### 21. It works, but it requires a bit of work too **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lukas S. | CTO, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** Flexibility. This tool can do anything you may ever want to see in a virtualization environment. Want to use a weird storage backend? If it can't already use it, you can implement that yourself, no problem. Want to use some pci(-e) devices inside the VM? No problem. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** In some environments it requires quite a lot of configuration to get the desired performance, especially Disk I/O can sometimes be quite hard to get just right. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** If you want to get it working easily, or want to use it for local development, i'd recommend taking a look at libvirt and virt-manager as control interfaces for qemu, making it a lot easier to work with. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Virtualization of servers, at the moment mostly where Docker isn't an option (like running Windows inside the VM), or where Software needs quite a lot of privileges, which may be a security risk without "real" virtualization. ### 22. Easily modifiable for low level device simulation. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Scott H. | Software Engineering Intern, Wireless, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** We used Qemu to create a new device for the Microblaze architecture. A thorough read of the qemu source made hacking it a no brainer. We found the codebase very approachable, with plenty of examples ready to answer your questions. Really a great (and probably overkill) framework for our needs of simulating a low level device. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** Starting/stopping qemu can be a pain, depending on your workflow. Qemu's docs at times seemed non-exsistant. It is really up to the user to read the portion of the codebase they need, and hack small tests to explore new ideas. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** Be ready to dive in. Don't expect the documentation to help! **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulation of devices can be hard. Qemu really made it easy so we could move on to writing and validating our device drivers with ease. ### 23. Virtualization made nice and easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** José M V. | Fullstack Developer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** It's Open source, it's free. One configuration will emulate many CPUs. Development can improve the software over time as it's opensource. It is highly configurable, like really configurable. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** It can be some times a pain to configure if you're new into the virtualization world, but there's a bunch of tutorials you can follow step by step on the internet and succeed. You can only virtualize using x86, x86_64, and PowerPC architectures. (Bye RPi) **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** If you're a ninja at setting things up and you have some spare time, feel free to take a look at this bad boy, it will give you some surprises as you set it up, get it up and running, you won't regret this choice. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating development enviroments can easily take some time of your days, QEMU can make it nice and clean in a few steps, i really encourage you to give it a shot. ### 24. Use qemu as a simple dev-ops virtualization software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alessandro C. | Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** Virtualize every you wants with just two lines of shell script. Start a virtual environment without memory consumption or particular hardware requirements. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** A little bit more simple network configuration tool could be appreciated. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** Is a simple and powerful tool, but is characterized with a bit harder learning curve. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a software developer focused on linux software application development I use qemu to test applications on different linux distributions and windows, without particular hardware requirements, I could start a virtualized environment with just a couple lines of shell script. ### 25. Qemu - the swiss knife of OS developers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** Apart from Qemu being one of the most power full virtualisation tool, used in a wide range of cloud computing providers, it can also be used to emulate a different architecutre (e.g. you can run arm64 binaries/linux on you x86 machine). **What do you dislike about QEMU?** Difficult to set up the command line. The command line options differ significantly between different architectures (e.g. setting up a network interface is different in x86 and arm64) **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it mainly for emulation of different architectures. For the development of new software for this architecture. If you are working on the OS level, it is really handy that you can dump easily the registers from your CPU to see what really happens. ### 26. Does the job minimally, but there are modern alternatives **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramkumar R. | LLVM/Compiler Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** It's open source. The interface is very transparent, and you can tweak whatever you like. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** Doesn't work out of the box. Too many magic configuration options. I'm looking for a finished product, not the insides of an engine. **Recommendations to others considering QEMU:** Use VMWare Fusion. For production, use Docker. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Didn't use it to solve business problems. Just played with it recreationally. ### 27. This is the only solution for simulation different CPU **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zhizhou L. | Associate, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** Use different program from different CPU in the develop server which is X86. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** If I meet a crash or error in the QEMU, it not easy to identify the problem, find the root cause and fix the bug. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use to generate the rootfs for different platform ### 28. Easy to simulator different cpu architecture **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zhang L. | Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Industrial Automation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** Qemu can simulator different cpu ( arm/x86/ppc/mips) winin linux/windows/mac os. And simulate in different level as system mode simulation and user mode simulation. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** QEMU's interface is not very friendly to normal user. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** Test application in different cpu architecture. ### 29. QEMU KVM for OpenStack **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2015 **What do you like best about QEMU?** QEMU is an open-source software backed by some big names such as Google, IBM, RedHat and others. I enjoy it supports to execute on multiple processor architecture and operating systems. **What do you dislike about QEMU?** QEMU is extensively used but the available documentation is scarce and outdated. **What problems is QEMU solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use QEMU, with the Linux Kernel module, as the hypervisor for our OpenStack private cloud offerings. 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