Quickemu is a wrapper for QEMU that automatically “does the right thing” when creating virtual machines. It creates and runs highly optimised desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows
There’s no requirement for exhaustive configuration options. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu takes care of the rest.
Quickemu includes comprehensive support for Linux, macOS, Windows, most of the BSDs, novel non-Linux operating systems such as FreeDOS, Haiku, KolibriOS, OpenIndiana, ReactOS, and more.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Host support for Linux and macOS.
- macOS Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina and Mojave.
- Windows 10 and 11 including TPM 2.0.
- Windows Server 2022 2019 2016.
- Ubuntu and all the official Ubuntu flavours.
- Nearly 1.000 operating system editions are supported..
- Full SPICE support including host/guest clipboard sharing.
- VirtIO-webdavd file sharing for Linux and Windows guests.
- VirtIO-9p file sharing for Linux and macOS guests.
- QEMU Guest Agent support; provides access to a system-level agent via standard QMP commands.
- Samba file sharing for Linux, macOS and Windows guests (if smbd is installed on the host).
- VirGL acceleration.
- USB device pass-through.
- Smartcard pass-through.
- Automatic SSH port forwarding to guests.
- Network port forwarding.
- Full duplex audio.
- Braille support.
- EFI (with or without SecureBoot) and Legacy BIOS boot.
Website: github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
Support:
Developer: Wimpy’s World
License: MIT License
Quickemu is written in Bash. Learn Bash with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Virtualization Tools | |
|---|---|
| VirtualBox | Powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization software |
| Quickemu | Wrapper for QEMU that automatically “does the right thing” |
| QEMU | Machine emulator and virtualizer |
| Boxes | View, access, and manage remote and virtual systems |
| virt-manager | Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt |
| Incus | Modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager |
| Quickgui | Gaphical user interface for the Quickemu virtual machine manager. |
| Cassowary | Run Windows virtual machine on Linux |
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