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8 @settitle QEMU Emulator User Documentation
15 * QEMU: (qemu-doc). The QEMU Emulator User Documentation.
22 @center @titlefont{QEMU Emulator}
24 @center @titlefont{User Documentation}
36 * QEMU PC System emulator::
37 * QEMU System emulator for non PC targets::
38 * QEMU User space emulator::
39 * compilation:: Compilation from the sources
51 * intro_features:: Features
57 QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to
58 achieve good emulation speed.
60 QEMU has two operating modes:
63 @cindex operating modes
66 @cindex system emulation
67 Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system (for
68 example a PC), including one or several processors and various
69 peripherals. It can be used to launch different Operating Systems
70 without rebooting the PC or to debug system code.
73 @cindex user mode emulation
74 User mode emulation. In this mode, QEMU can launch
75 processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU. It can be used to
76 launch the Wine Windows API emulator (@url{http://www.winehq.org}) or
77 to ease cross-compilation and cross-debugging.
81 QEMU can run without an host kernel driver and yet gives acceptable
84 For system emulation, the following hardware targets are supported:
86 @cindex emulated target systems
87 @cindex supported target systems
88 @item PC (x86 or x86_64 processor)
89 @item ISA PC (old style PC without PCI bus)
90 @item PREP (PowerPC processor)
91 @item G3 Beige PowerMac (PowerPC processor)
92 @item Mac99 PowerMac (PowerPC processor, in progress)
93 @item Sun4m/Sun4c/Sun4d (32-bit Sparc processor)
94 @item Sun4u/Sun4v (64-bit Sparc processor, in progress)
95 @item Malta board (32-bit and 64-bit MIPS processors)
96 @item MIPS Magnum (64-bit MIPS processor)
97 @item ARM Integrator/CP (ARM)
98 @item ARM Versatile baseboard (ARM)
99 @item ARM RealView Emulation/Platform baseboard (ARM)
100 @item Spitz, Akita, Borzoi, Terrier and Tosa PDAs (PXA270 processor)
101 @item Luminary Micro LM3S811EVB (ARM Cortex-M3)
102 @item Luminary Micro LM3S6965EVB (ARM Cortex-M3)
103 @item Freescale MCF5208EVB (ColdFire V2).
104 @item Arnewsh MCF5206 evaluation board (ColdFire V2).
105 @item Palm Tungsten|E PDA (OMAP310 processor)
106 @item N800 and N810 tablets (OMAP2420 processor)
107 @item MusicPal (MV88W8618 ARM processor)
108 @item Gumstix "Connex" and "Verdex" motherboards (PXA255/270).
109 @item Siemens SX1 smartphone (OMAP310 processor)
110 @item Syborg SVP base model (ARM Cortex-A8).
111 @item AXIS-Devboard88 (CRISv32 ETRAX-FS).
112 @item Petalogix Spartan 3aDSP1800 MMU ref design (MicroBlaze).
115 @cindex supported user mode targets
116 For user emulation, x86 (32 and 64 bit), PowerPC (32 and 64 bit),
117 ARM, MIPS (32 bit only), Sparc (32 and 64 bit),
118 Alpha, ColdFire(m68k), CRISv32 and MicroBlaze CPUs are supported.
121 @chapter Installation
123 If you want to compile QEMU yourself, see @ref{compilation}.
126 * install_linux:: Linux
127 * install_windows:: Windows
128 * install_mac:: Macintosh
133 @cindex installation (Linux)
135 If a precompiled package is available for your distribution - you just
136 have to install it. Otherwise, see @ref{compilation}.
138 @node install_windows
140 @cindex installation (Windows)
142 Download the experimental binary installer at
143 @url{http://www.free.oszoo.org/@/download.html}.
144 TODO (no longer available)
149 Download the experimental binary installer at
150 @url{http://www.free.oszoo.org/@/download.html}.
151 TODO (no longer available)
153 @node QEMU PC System emulator
154 @chapter QEMU PC System emulator
155 @cindex system emulation (PC)
158 * pcsys_introduction:: Introduction
159 * pcsys_quickstart:: Quick Start
160 * sec_invocation:: Invocation
162 * pcsys_monitor:: QEMU Monitor
163 * disk_images:: Disk Images
164 * pcsys_network:: Network emulation
165 * direct_linux_boot:: Direct Linux Boot
166 * pcsys_usb:: USB emulation
167 * vnc_security:: VNC security
168 * gdb_usage:: GDB usage
169 * pcsys_os_specific:: Target OS specific information
172 @node pcsys_introduction
173 @section Introduction
175 @c man begin DESCRIPTION
177 The QEMU PC System emulator simulates the
178 following peripherals:
182 i440FX host PCI bridge and PIIX3 PCI to ISA bridge
184 Cirrus CLGD 5446 PCI VGA card or dummy VGA card with Bochs VESA
185 extensions (hardware level, including all non standard modes).
187 PS/2 mouse and keyboard
189 2 PCI IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
193 PCI and ISA network adapters
197 Creative SoundBlaster 16 sound card
199 ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370 sound card
201 Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio compatible sound card
203 Intel HD Audio Controller and HDA codec
205 Adlib(OPL2) - Yamaha YM3812 compatible chip
207 Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card
209 CS4231A compatible sound card
211 PCI UHCI USB controller and a virtual USB hub.
214 SMP is supported with up to 255 CPUs.
216 Note that adlib, gus and cs4231a are only available when QEMU was
217 configured with --audio-card-list option containing the name(s) of
220 QEMU uses the PC BIOS from the Bochs project and the Plex86/Bochs LGPL
223 QEMU uses YM3812 emulation by Tatsuyuki Satoh.
225 QEMU uses GUS emulation(GUSEMU32 @url{http://www.deinmeister.de/gusemu/})
226 by Tibor "TS" Schütz.
228 Not that, by default, GUS shares IRQ(7) with parallel ports and so
229 qemu must be told to not have parallel ports to have working GUS
232 qemu dos.img -soundhw gus -parallel none
237 qemu dos.img -device gus,irq=5
240 Or some other unclaimed IRQ.
242 CS4231A is the chip used in Windows Sound System and GUSMAX products
246 @node pcsys_quickstart
250 Download and uncompress the linux image (@file{linux.img}) and type:
256 Linux should boot and give you a prompt.
262 @c man begin SYNOPSIS
263 usage: qemu [options] [@var{disk_image}]
268 @var{disk_image} is a raw hard disk image for IDE hard disk 0. Some
269 targets do not need a disk image.
271 @include qemu-options.texi
280 During the graphical emulation, you can use the following keys:
288 Restore the screen's un-scaled dimensions
292 Switch to virtual console 'n'. Standard console mappings are:
295 Target system display
304 Toggle mouse and keyboard grab.
310 @kindex Ctrl-PageDown
311 In the virtual consoles, you can use @key{Ctrl-Up}, @key{Ctrl-Down},
312 @key{Ctrl-PageUp} and @key{Ctrl-PageDown} to move in the back log.
315 During emulation, if you are using the @option{-nographic} option, use
316 @key{Ctrl-a h} to get terminal commands:
329 Save disk data back to file (if -snapshot)
332 Toggle console timestamps
335 Send break (magic sysrq in Linux)
338 Switch between console and monitor
348 The HTML documentation of QEMU for more precise information and Linux
349 user mode emulator invocation.
359 @section QEMU Monitor
362 The QEMU monitor is used to give complex commands to the QEMU
363 emulator. You can use it to:
368 Remove or insert removable media images
369 (such as CD-ROM or floppies).
372 Freeze/unfreeze the Virtual Machine (VM) and save or restore its state
375 @item Inspect the VM state without an external debugger.
381 The following commands are available:
383 @include qemu-monitor.texi
385 @subsection Integer expressions
387 The monitor understands integers expressions for every integer
388 argument. You can use register names to get the value of specifics
389 CPU registers by prefixing them with @emph{$}.
394 Since version 0.6.1, QEMU supports many disk image formats, including
395 growable disk images (their size increase as non empty sectors are
396 written), compressed and encrypted disk images. Version 0.8.3 added
397 the new qcow2 disk image format which is essential to support VM
401 * disk_images_quickstart:: Quick start for disk image creation
402 * disk_images_snapshot_mode:: Snapshot mode
403 * vm_snapshots:: VM snapshots
404 * qemu_img_invocation:: qemu-img Invocation
405 * qemu_nbd_invocation:: qemu-nbd Invocation
406 * host_drives:: Using host drives
407 * disk_images_fat_images:: Virtual FAT disk images
408 * disk_images_nbd:: NBD access
411 @node disk_images_quickstart
412 @subsection Quick start for disk image creation
414 You can create a disk image with the command:
416 qemu-img create myimage.img mysize
418 where @var{myimage.img} is the disk image filename and @var{mysize} is its
419 size in kilobytes. You can add an @code{M} suffix to give the size in
420 megabytes and a @code{G} suffix for gigabytes.
422 See @ref{qemu_img_invocation} for more information.
424 @node disk_images_snapshot_mode
425 @subsection Snapshot mode
427 If you use the option @option{-snapshot}, all disk images are
428 considered as read only. When sectors in written, they are written in
429 a temporary file created in @file{/tmp}. You can however force the
430 write back to the raw disk images by using the @code{commit} monitor
431 command (or @key{C-a s} in the serial console).
434 @subsection VM snapshots
436 VM snapshots are snapshots of the complete virtual machine including
437 CPU state, RAM, device state and the content of all the writable
438 disks. In order to use VM snapshots, you must have at least one non
439 removable and writable block device using the @code{qcow2} disk image
440 format. Normally this device is the first virtual hard drive.
442 Use the monitor command @code{savevm} to create a new VM snapshot or
443 replace an existing one. A human readable name can be assigned to each
444 snapshot in addition to its numerical ID.
446 Use @code{loadvm} to restore a VM snapshot and @code{delvm} to remove
447 a VM snapshot. @code{info snapshots} lists the available snapshots
448 with their associated information:
451 (qemu) info snapshots
452 Snapshot devices: hda
453 Snapshot list (from hda):
454 ID TAG VM SIZE DATE VM CLOCK
455 1 start 41M 2006-08-06 12:38:02 00:00:14.954
456 2 40M 2006-08-06 12:43:29 00:00:18.633
457 3 msys 40M 2006-08-06 12:44:04 00:00:23.514
460 A VM snapshot is made of a VM state info (its size is shown in
461 @code{info snapshots}) and a snapshot of every writable disk image.
462 The VM state info is stored in the first @code{qcow2} non removable
463 and writable block device. The disk image snapshots are stored in
464 every disk image. The size of a snapshot in a disk image is difficult
465 to evaluate and is not shown by @code{info snapshots} because the
466 associated disk sectors are shared among all the snapshots to save
467 disk space (otherwise each snapshot would need a full copy of all the
470 When using the (unrelated) @code{-snapshot} option
471 (@ref{disk_images_snapshot_mode}), you can always make VM snapshots,
472 but they are deleted as soon as you exit QEMU.
474 VM snapshots currently have the following known limitations:
477 They cannot cope with removable devices if they are removed or
478 inserted after a snapshot is done.
480 A few device drivers still have incomplete snapshot support so their
481 state is not saved or restored properly (in particular USB).
484 @node qemu_img_invocation
485 @subsection @code{qemu-img} Invocation
487 @include qemu-img.texi
489 @node qemu_nbd_invocation
490 @subsection @code{qemu-nbd} Invocation
492 @include qemu-nbd.texi
495 @subsection Using host drives
497 In addition to disk image files, QEMU can directly access host
498 devices. We describe here the usage for QEMU version >= 0.8.3.
502 On Linux, you can directly use the host device filename instead of a
503 disk image filename provided you have enough privileges to access
504 it. For example, use @file{/dev/cdrom} to access to the CDROM or
505 @file{/dev/fd0} for the floppy.
509 You can specify a CDROM device even if no CDROM is loaded. QEMU has
510 specific code to detect CDROM insertion or removal. CDROM ejection by
511 the guest OS is supported. Currently only data CDs are supported.
513 You can specify a floppy device even if no floppy is loaded. Floppy
514 removal is currently not detected accurately (if you change floppy
515 without doing floppy access while the floppy is not loaded, the guest
516 OS will think that the same floppy is loaded).
518 Hard disks can be used. Normally you must specify the whole disk
519 (@file{/dev/hdb} instead of @file{/dev/hdb1}) so that the guest OS can
520 see it as a partitioned disk. WARNING: unless you know what you do, it
521 is better to only make READ-ONLY accesses to the hard disk otherwise
522 you may corrupt your host data (use the @option{-snapshot} command
523 line option or modify the device permissions accordingly).
526 @subsubsection Windows
530 The preferred syntax is the drive letter (e.g. @file{d:}). The
531 alternate syntax @file{\\.\d:} is supported. @file{/dev/cdrom} is
532 supported as an alias to the first CDROM drive.
534 Currently there is no specific code to handle removable media, so it
535 is better to use the @code{change} or @code{eject} monitor commands to
536 change or eject media.
538 Hard disks can be used with the syntax: @file{\\.\PhysicalDrive@var{N}}
539 where @var{N} is the drive number (0 is the first hard disk).
541 WARNING: unless you know what you do, it is better to only make
542 READ-ONLY accesses to the hard disk otherwise you may corrupt your
543 host data (use the @option{-snapshot} command line so that the
544 modifications are written in a temporary file).
548 @subsubsection Mac OS X
550 @file{/dev/cdrom} is an alias to the first CDROM.
552 Currently there is no specific code to handle removable media, so it
553 is better to use the @code{change} or @code{eject} monitor commands to
554 change or eject media.
556 @node disk_images_fat_images
557 @subsection Virtual FAT disk images
559 QEMU can automatically create a virtual FAT disk image from a
560 directory tree. In order to use it, just type:
563 qemu linux.img -hdb fat:/my_directory
566 Then you access access to all the files in the @file{/my_directory}
567 directory without having to copy them in a disk image or to export
568 them via SAMBA or NFS. The default access is @emph{read-only}.
570 Floppies can be emulated with the @code{:floppy:} option:
573 qemu linux.img -fda fat:floppy:/my_directory
576 A read/write support is available for testing (beta stage) with the
580 qemu linux.img -fda fat:floppy:rw:/my_directory
583 What you should @emph{never} do:
585 @item use non-ASCII filenames ;
586 @item use "-snapshot" together with ":rw:" ;
587 @item expect it to work when loadvm'ing ;
588 @item write to the FAT directory on the host system while accessing it with the guest system.
591 @node disk_images_nbd
592 @subsection NBD access
594 QEMU can access directly to block device exported using the Network Block Device
598 qemu linux.img -hdb nbd:my_nbd_server.mydomain.org:1024
601 If the NBD server is located on the same host, you can use an unix socket instead
605 qemu linux.img -hdb nbd:unix:/tmp/my_socket
608 In this case, the block device must be exported using qemu-nbd:
611 qemu-nbd --socket=/tmp/my_socket my_disk.qcow2
614 The use of qemu-nbd allows to share a disk between several guests:
616 qemu-nbd --socket=/tmp/my_socket --share=2 my_disk.qcow2
619 and then you can use it with two guests:
621 qemu linux1.img -hdb nbd:unix:/tmp/my_socket
622 qemu linux2.img -hdb nbd:unix:/tmp/my_socket
625 If the nbd-server uses named exports (since NBD 2.9.18), you must use the
628 qemu -cdrom nbd:localhost:exportname=debian-500-ppc-netinst
629 qemu -cdrom nbd:localhost:exportname=openSUSE-11.1-ppc-netinst
633 @section Network emulation
635 QEMU can simulate several network cards (PCI or ISA cards on the PC
636 target) and can connect them to an arbitrary number of Virtual Local
637 Area Networks (VLANs). Host TAP devices can be connected to any QEMU
638 VLAN. VLAN can be connected between separate instances of QEMU to
639 simulate large networks. For simpler usage, a non privileged user mode
640 network stack can replace the TAP device to have a basic network
645 QEMU simulates several VLANs. A VLAN can be symbolised as a virtual
646 connection between several network devices. These devices can be for
647 example QEMU virtual Ethernet cards or virtual Host ethernet devices
650 @subsection Using TAP network interfaces
652 This is the standard way to connect QEMU to a real network. QEMU adds
653 a virtual network device on your host (called @code{tapN}), and you
654 can then configure it as if it was a real ethernet card.
656 @subsubsection Linux host
658 As an example, you can download the @file{linux-test-xxx.tar.gz}
659 archive and copy the script @file{qemu-ifup} in @file{/etc} and
660 configure properly @code{sudo} so that the command @code{ifconfig}
661 contained in @file{qemu-ifup} can be executed as root. You must verify
662 that your host kernel supports the TAP network interfaces: the
663 device @file{/dev/net/tun} must be present.
665 See @ref{sec_invocation} to have examples of command lines using the
666 TAP network interfaces.
668 @subsubsection Windows host
670 There is a virtual ethernet driver for Windows 2000/XP systems, called
671 TAP-Win32. But it is not included in standard QEMU for Windows,
672 so you will need to get it separately. It is part of OpenVPN package,
673 so download OpenVPN from : @url{http://openvpn.net/}.
675 @subsection Using the user mode network stack
677 By using the option @option{-net user} (default configuration if no
678 @option{-net} option is specified), QEMU uses a completely user mode
679 network stack (you don't need root privilege to use the virtual
680 network). The virtual network configuration is the following:
684 QEMU VLAN <------> Firewall/DHCP server <-----> Internet
687 ----> DNS server (10.0.2.3)
689 ----> SMB server (10.0.2.4)
692 The QEMU VM behaves as if it was behind a firewall which blocks all
693 incoming connections. You can use a DHCP client to automatically
694 configure the network in the QEMU VM. The DHCP server assign addresses
695 to the hosts starting from 10.0.2.15.
697 In order to check that the user mode network is working, you can ping
698 the address 10.0.2.2 and verify that you got an address in the range
699 10.0.2.x from the QEMU virtual DHCP server.
701 Note that @code{ping} is not supported reliably to the internet as it
702 would require root privileges. It means you can only ping the local
705 When using the built-in TFTP server, the router is also the TFTP
708 When using the @option{-redir} option, TCP or UDP connections can be
709 redirected from the host to the guest. It allows for example to
710 redirect X11, telnet or SSH connections.
712 @subsection Connecting VLANs between QEMU instances
714 Using the @option{-net socket} option, it is possible to make VLANs
715 that span several QEMU instances. See @ref{sec_invocation} to have a
718 @section Other Devices
720 @subsection Inter-VM Shared Memory device
722 With KVM enabled on a Linux host, a shared memory device is available. Guests
723 map a POSIX shared memory region into the guest as a PCI device that enables
724 zero-copy communication to the application level of the guests. The basic
728 qemu -device ivshmem,size=<size in format accepted by -m>[,shm=<shm name>]
731 If desired, interrupts can be sent between guest VMs accessing the same shared
732 memory region. Interrupt support requires using a shared memory server and
733 using a chardev socket to connect to it. The code for the shared memory server
734 is qemu.git/contrib/ivshmem-server. An example syntax when using the shared
738 qemu -device ivshmem,size=<size in format accepted by -m>[,chardev=<id>]
739 [,msi=on][,ioeventfd=on][,vectors=n][,role=peer|master]
740 qemu -chardev socket,path=<path>,id=<id>
743 When using the server, the guest will be assigned a VM ID (>=0) that allows guests
744 using the same server to communicate via interrupts. Guests can read their
745 VM ID from a device register (see example code). Since receiving the shared
746 memory region from the server is asynchronous, there is a (small) chance the
747 guest may boot before the shared memory is attached. To allow an application
748 to ensure shared memory is attached, the VM ID register will return -1 (an
749 invalid VM ID) until the memory is attached. Once the shared memory is
750 attached, the VM ID will return the guest's valid VM ID. With these semantics,
751 the guest application can check to ensure the shared memory is attached to the
752 guest before proceeding.
754 The @option{role} argument can be set to either master or peer and will affect
755 how the shared memory is migrated. With @option{role=master}, the guest will
756 copy the shared memory on migration to the destination host. With
757 @option{role=peer}, the guest will not be able to migrate with the device attached.
758 With the @option{peer} case, the device should be detached and then reattached
759 after migration using the PCI hotplug support.
761 @node direct_linux_boot
762 @section Direct Linux Boot
764 This section explains how to launch a Linux kernel inside QEMU without
765 having to make a full bootable image. It is very useful for fast Linux
770 qemu -kernel arch/i386/boot/bzImage -hda root-2.4.20.img -append "root=/dev/hda"
773 Use @option{-kernel} to provide the Linux kernel image and
774 @option{-append} to give the kernel command line arguments. The
775 @option{-initrd} option can be used to provide an INITRD image.
777 When using the direct Linux boot, a disk image for the first hard disk
778 @file{hda} is required because its boot sector is used to launch the
781 If you do not need graphical output, you can disable it and redirect
782 the virtual serial port and the QEMU monitor to the console with the
783 @option{-nographic} option. The typical command line is:
785 qemu -kernel arch/i386/boot/bzImage -hda root-2.4.20.img \
786 -append "root=/dev/hda console=ttyS0" -nographic
789 Use @key{Ctrl-a c} to switch between the serial console and the
790 monitor (@pxref{pcsys_keys}).
793 @section USB emulation
795 QEMU emulates a PCI UHCI USB controller. You can virtually plug
796 virtual USB devices or real host USB devices (experimental, works only
797 on Linux hosts). Qemu will automatically create and connect virtual USB hubs
798 as necessary to connect multiple USB devices.
805 @subsection Connecting USB devices
807 USB devices can be connected with the @option{-usbdevice} commandline option
808 or the @code{usb_add} monitor command. Available devices are:
812 Virtual Mouse. This will override the PS/2 mouse emulation when activated.
814 Pointer device that uses absolute coordinates (like a touchscreen).
815 This means qemu is able to report the mouse position without having
816 to grab the mouse. Also overrides the PS/2 mouse emulation when activated.
817 @item disk:@var{file}
818 Mass storage device based on @var{file} (@pxref{disk_images})
819 @item host:@var{bus.addr}
820 Pass through the host device identified by @var{bus.addr}
822 @item host:@var{vendor_id:product_id}
823 Pass through the host device identified by @var{vendor_id:product_id}
826 Virtual Wacom PenPartner tablet. This device is similar to the @code{tablet}
827 above but it can be used with the tslib library because in addition to touch
828 coordinates it reports touch pressure.
830 Standard USB keyboard. Will override the PS/2 keyboard (if present).
831 @item serial:[vendorid=@var{vendor_id}][,product_id=@var{product_id}]:@var{dev}
832 Serial converter. This emulates an FTDI FT232BM chip connected to host character
833 device @var{dev}. The available character devices are the same as for the
834 @code{-serial} option. The @code{vendorid} and @code{productid} options can be
835 used to override the default 0403:6001. For instance,
837 usb_add serial:productid=FA00:tcp:192.168.0.2:4444
839 will connect to tcp port 4444 of ip 192.168.0.2, and plug that to the virtual
840 serial converter, faking a Matrix Orbital LCD Display (USB ID 0403:FA00).
842 Braille device. This will use BrlAPI to display the braille output on a real
844 @item net:@var{options}
845 Network adapter that supports CDC ethernet and RNDIS protocols. @var{options}
846 specifies NIC options as with @code{-net nic,}@var{options} (see description).
847 For instance, user-mode networking can be used with
849 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -net user,vlan=0 -usbdevice net:vlan=0
851 Currently this cannot be used in machines that support PCI NICs.
852 @item bt[:@var{hci-type}]
853 Bluetooth dongle whose type is specified in the same format as with
854 the @option{-bt hci} option, @pxref{bt-hcis,,allowed HCI types}. If
855 no type is given, the HCI logic corresponds to @code{-bt hci,vlan=0}.
856 This USB device implements the USB Transport Layer of HCI. Example
859 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -usbdevice bt:hci,vlan=3 -bt device:keyboard,vlan=3
863 @node host_usb_devices
864 @subsection Using host USB devices on a Linux host
866 WARNING: this is an experimental feature. QEMU will slow down when
867 using it. USB devices requiring real time streaming (i.e. USB Video
868 Cameras) are not supported yet.
871 @item If you use an early Linux 2.4 kernel, verify that no Linux driver
872 is actually using the USB device. A simple way to do that is simply to
873 disable the corresponding kernel module by renaming it from @file{mydriver.o}
874 to @file{mydriver.o.disabled}.
876 @item Verify that @file{/proc/bus/usb} is working (most Linux distributions should enable it by default). You should see something like that:
882 @item Since only root can access to the USB devices directly, you can either launch QEMU as root or change the permissions of the USB devices you want to use. For testing, the following suffices:
884 chown -R myuid /proc/bus/usb
887 @item Launch QEMU and do in the monitor:
890 Device 1.2, speed 480 Mb/s
891 Class 00: USB device 1234:5678, USB DISK
893 You should see the list of the devices you can use (Never try to use
894 hubs, it won't work).
896 @item Add the device in QEMU by using:
898 usb_add host:1234:5678
901 Normally the guest OS should report that a new USB device is
902 plugged. You can use the option @option{-usbdevice} to do the same.
904 @item Now you can try to use the host USB device in QEMU.
908 When relaunching QEMU, you may have to unplug and plug again the USB
909 device to make it work again (this is a bug).
912 @section VNC security
914 The VNC server capability provides access to the graphical console
915 of the guest VM across the network. This has a number of security
916 considerations depending on the deployment scenarios.
921 * vnc_sec_certificate::
922 * vnc_sec_certificate_verify::
923 * vnc_sec_certificate_pw::
925 * vnc_sec_certificate_sasl::
926 * vnc_generate_cert::
930 @subsection Without passwords
932 The simplest VNC server setup does not include any form of authentication.
933 For this setup it is recommended to restrict it to listen on a UNIX domain
934 socket only. For example
937 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc unix:/home/joebloggs/.qemu-myvm-vnc
940 This ensures that only users on local box with read/write access to that
941 path can access the VNC server. To securely access the VNC server from a
942 remote machine, a combination of netcat+ssh can be used to provide a secure
945 @node vnc_sec_password
946 @subsection With passwords
948 The VNC protocol has limited support for password based authentication. Since
949 the protocol limits passwords to 8 characters it should not be considered
950 to provide high security. The password can be fairly easily brute-forced by
951 a client making repeat connections. For this reason, a VNC server using password
952 authentication should be restricted to only listen on the loopback interface
953 or UNIX domain sockets. Password authentication is requested with the @code{password}
954 option, and then once QEMU is running the password is set with the monitor. Until
955 the monitor is used to set the password all clients will be rejected.
958 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,password -monitor stdio
959 (qemu) change vnc password
964 @node vnc_sec_certificate
965 @subsection With x509 certificates
967 The QEMU VNC server also implements the VeNCrypt extension allowing use of
968 TLS for encryption of the session, and x509 certificates for authentication.
969 The use of x509 certificates is strongly recommended, because TLS on its
970 own is susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. Basic x509 certificate
971 support provides a secure session, but no authentication. This allows any
972 client to connect, and provides an encrypted session.
975 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,tls,x509=/etc/pki/qemu -monitor stdio
978 In the above example @code{/etc/pki/qemu} should contain at least three files,
979 @code{ca-cert.pem}, @code{server-cert.pem} and @code{server-key.pem}. Unprivileged
980 users will want to use a private directory, for example @code{$HOME/.pki/qemu}.
981 NB the @code{server-key.pem} file should be protected with file mode 0600 to
982 only be readable by the user owning it.
984 @node vnc_sec_certificate_verify
985 @subsection With x509 certificates and client verification
987 Certificates can also provide a means to authenticate the client connecting.
988 The server will request that the client provide a certificate, which it will
989 then validate against the CA certificate. This is a good choice if deploying
990 in an environment with a private internal certificate authority.
993 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,tls,x509verify=/etc/pki/qemu -monitor stdio
997 @node vnc_sec_certificate_pw
998 @subsection With x509 certificates, client verification and passwords
1000 Finally, the previous method can be combined with VNC password authentication
1001 to provide two layers of authentication for clients.
1004 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,password,tls,x509verify=/etc/pki/qemu -monitor stdio
1005 (qemu) change vnc password
1012 @subsection With SASL authentication
1014 The SASL authentication method is a VNC extension, that provides an
1015 easily extendable, pluggable authentication method. This allows for
1016 integration with a wide range of authentication mechanisms, such as
1017 PAM, GSSAPI/Kerberos, LDAP, SQL databases, one-time keys and more.
1018 The strength of the authentication depends on the exact mechanism
1019 configured. If the chosen mechanism also provides a SSF layer, then
1020 it will encrypt the datastream as well.
1022 Refer to the later docs on how to choose the exact SASL mechanism
1023 used for authentication, but assuming use of one supporting SSF,
1024 then QEMU can be launched with:
1027 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,sasl -monitor stdio
1030 @node vnc_sec_certificate_sasl
1031 @subsection With x509 certificates and SASL authentication
1033 If the desired SASL authentication mechanism does not supported
1034 SSF layers, then it is strongly advised to run it in combination
1035 with TLS and x509 certificates. This provides securely encrypted
1036 data stream, avoiding risk of compromising of the security
1037 credentials. This can be enabled, by combining the 'sasl' option
1038 with the aforementioned TLS + x509 options:
1041 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,tls,x509,sasl -monitor stdio
1045 @node vnc_generate_cert
1046 @subsection Generating certificates for VNC
1048 The GNU TLS packages provides a command called @code{certtool} which can
1049 be used to generate certificates and keys in PEM format. At a minimum it
1050 is neccessary to setup a certificate authority, and issue certificates to
1051 each server. If using certificates for authentication, then each client
1052 will also need to be issued a certificate. The recommendation is for the
1053 server to keep its certificates in either @code{/etc/pki/qemu} or for
1054 unprivileged users in @code{$HOME/.pki/qemu}.
1058 * vnc_generate_server::
1059 * vnc_generate_client::
1061 @node vnc_generate_ca
1062 @subsubsection Setup the Certificate Authority
1064 This step only needs to be performed once per organization / organizational
1065 unit. First the CA needs a private key. This key must be kept VERY secret
1066 and secure. If this key is compromised the entire trust chain of the certificates
1067 issued with it is lost.
1070 # certtool --generate-privkey > ca-key.pem
1073 A CA needs to have a public certificate. For simplicity it can be a self-signed
1074 certificate, or one issue by a commercial certificate issuing authority. To
1075 generate a self-signed certificate requires one core piece of information, the
1076 name of the organization.
1079 # cat > ca.info <<EOF
1080 cn = Name of your organization
1084 # certtool --generate-self-signed \
1085 --load-privkey ca-key.pem
1086 --template ca.info \
1087 --outfile ca-cert.pem
1090 The @code{ca-cert.pem} file should be copied to all servers and clients wishing to utilize
1091 TLS support in the VNC server. The @code{ca-key.pem} must not be disclosed/copied at all.
1093 @node vnc_generate_server
1094 @subsubsection Issuing server certificates
1096 Each server (or host) needs to be issued with a key and certificate. When connecting
1097 the certificate is sent to the client which validates it against the CA certificate.
1098 The core piece of information for a server certificate is the hostname. This should
1099 be the fully qualified hostname that the client will connect with, since the client
1100 will typically also verify the hostname in the certificate. On the host holding the
1101 secure CA private key:
1104 # cat > server.info <<EOF
1105 organization = Name of your organization
1106 cn = server.foo.example.com
1111 # certtool --generate-privkey > server-key.pem
1112 # certtool --generate-certificate \
1113 --load-ca-certificate ca-cert.pem \
1114 --load-ca-privkey ca-key.pem \
1115 --load-privkey server server-key.pem \
1116 --template server.info \
1117 --outfile server-cert.pem
1120 The @code{server-key.pem} and @code{server-cert.pem} files should now be securely copied
1121 to the server for which they were generated. The @code{server-key.pem} is security
1122 sensitive and should be kept protected with file mode 0600 to prevent disclosure.
1124 @node vnc_generate_client
1125 @subsubsection Issuing client certificates
1127 If the QEMU VNC server is to use the @code{x509verify} option to validate client
1128 certificates as its authentication mechanism, each client also needs to be issued
1129 a certificate. The client certificate contains enough metadata to uniquely identify
1130 the client, typically organization, state, city, building, etc. On the host holding
1131 the secure CA private key:
1134 # cat > client.info <<EOF
1138 organiazation = Name of your organization
1139 cn = client.foo.example.com
1144 # certtool --generate-privkey > client-key.pem
1145 # certtool --generate-certificate \
1146 --load-ca-certificate ca-cert.pem \
1147 --load-ca-privkey ca-key.pem \
1148 --load-privkey client-key.pem \
1149 --template client.info \
1150 --outfile client-cert.pem
1153 The @code{client-key.pem} and @code{client-cert.pem} files should now be securely
1154 copied to the client for which they were generated.
1157 @node vnc_setup_sasl
1159 @subsection Configuring SASL mechanisms
1161 The following documentation assumes use of the Cyrus SASL implementation on a
1162 Linux host, but the principals should apply to any other SASL impl. When SASL
1163 is enabled, the mechanism configuration will be loaded from system default
1164 SASL service config /etc/sasl2/qemu.conf. If running QEMU as an
1165 unprivileged user, an environment variable SASL_CONF_PATH can be used
1166 to make it search alternate locations for the service config.
1168 The default configuration might contain
1171 mech_list: digest-md5
1172 sasldb_path: /etc/qemu/passwd.db
1175 This says to use the 'Digest MD5' mechanism, which is similar to the HTTP
1176 Digest-MD5 mechanism. The list of valid usernames & passwords is maintained
1177 in the /etc/qemu/passwd.db file, and can be updated using the saslpasswd2
1178 command. While this mechanism is easy to configure and use, it is not
1179 considered secure by modern standards, so only suitable for developers /
1182 A more serious deployment might use Kerberos, which is done with the 'gssapi'
1187 keytab: /etc/qemu/krb5.tab
1190 For this to work the administrator of your KDC must generate a Kerberos
1191 principal for the server, with a name of 'qemu/somehost.example.com@@EXAMPLE.COM'
1192 replacing 'somehost.example.com' with the fully qualified host name of the
1193 machine running QEMU, and 'EXAMPLE.COM' with the Keberos Realm.
1195 Other configurations will be left as an exercise for the reader. It should
1196 be noted that only Digest-MD5 and GSSAPI provides a SSF layer for data
1197 encryption. For all other mechanisms, VNC should always be configured to
1198 use TLS and x509 certificates to protect security credentials from snooping.
1203 QEMU has a primitive support to work with gdb, so that you can do
1204 'Ctrl-C' while the virtual machine is running and inspect its state.
1206 In order to use gdb, launch qemu with the '-s' option. It will wait for a
1209 > qemu -s -kernel arch/i386/boot/bzImage -hda root-2.4.20.img \
1210 -append "root=/dev/hda"
1211 Connected to host network interface: tun0
1212 Waiting gdb connection on port 1234
1215 Then launch gdb on the 'vmlinux' executable:
1220 In gdb, connect to QEMU:
1222 (gdb) target remote localhost:1234
1225 Then you can use gdb normally. For example, type 'c' to launch the kernel:
1230 Here are some useful tips in order to use gdb on system code:
1234 Use @code{info reg} to display all the CPU registers.
1236 Use @code{x/10i $eip} to display the code at the PC position.
1238 Use @code{set architecture i8086} to dump 16 bit code. Then use
1239 @code{x/10i $cs*16+$eip} to dump the code at the PC position.
1242 Advanced debugging options:
1244 The default single stepping behavior is step with the IRQs and timer service routines off. It is set this way because when gdb executes a single step it expects to advance beyond the current instruction. With the IRQs and and timer service routines on, a single step might jump into the one of the interrupt or exception vectors instead of executing the current instruction. This means you may hit the same breakpoint a number of times before executing the instruction gdb wants to have executed. Because there are rare circumstances where you want to single step into an interrupt vector the behavior can be controlled from GDB. There are three commands you can query and set the single step behavior:
1246 @item maintenance packet qqemu.sstepbits
1248 This will display the MASK bits used to control the single stepping IE:
1250 (gdb) maintenance packet qqemu.sstepbits
1251 sending: "qqemu.sstepbits"
1252 received: "ENABLE=1,NOIRQ=2,NOTIMER=4"
1254 @item maintenance packet qqemu.sstep
1256 This will display the current value of the mask used when single stepping IE:
1258 (gdb) maintenance packet qqemu.sstep
1259 sending: "qqemu.sstep"
1262 @item maintenance packet Qqemu.sstep=HEX_VALUE
1264 This will change the single step mask, so if wanted to enable IRQs on the single step, but not timers, you would use:
1266 (gdb) maintenance packet Qqemu.sstep=0x5
1267 sending: "qemu.sstep=0x5"
1272 @node pcsys_os_specific
1273 @section Target OS specific information
1277 To have access to SVGA graphic modes under X11, use the @code{vesa} or
1278 the @code{cirrus} X11 driver. For optimal performances, use 16 bit
1279 color depth in the guest and the host OS.
1281 When using a 2.6 guest Linux kernel, you should add the option
1282 @code{clock=pit} on the kernel command line because the 2.6 Linux
1283 kernels make very strict real time clock checks by default that QEMU
1284 cannot simulate exactly.
1286 When using a 2.6 guest Linux kernel, verify that the 4G/4G patch is
1287 not activated because QEMU is slower with this patch. The QEMU
1288 Accelerator Module is also much slower in this case. Earlier Fedora
1289 Core 3 Linux kernel (< 2.6.9-1.724_FC3) were known to incorporate this
1290 patch by default. Newer kernels don't have it.
1294 If you have a slow host, using Windows 95 is better as it gives the
1295 best speed. Windows 2000 is also a good choice.
1297 @subsubsection SVGA graphic modes support
1299 QEMU emulates a Cirrus Logic GD5446 Video
1300 card. All Windows versions starting from Windows 95 should recognize
1301 and use this graphic card. For optimal performances, use 16 bit color
1302 depth in the guest and the host OS.
1304 If you are using Windows XP as guest OS and if you want to use high
1305 resolution modes which the Cirrus Logic BIOS does not support (i.e. >=
1306 1280x1024x16), then you should use the VESA VBE virtual graphic card
1307 (option @option{-std-vga}).
1309 @subsubsection CPU usage reduction
1311 Windows 9x does not correctly use the CPU HLT
1312 instruction. The result is that it takes host CPU cycles even when
1313 idle. You can install the utility from
1314 @url{http://www.user.cityline.ru/~maxamn/amnhltm.zip} to solve this
1315 problem. Note that no such tool is needed for NT, 2000 or XP.
1317 @subsubsection Windows 2000 disk full problem
1319 Windows 2000 has a bug which gives a disk full problem during its
1320 installation. When installing it, use the @option{-win2k-hack} QEMU
1321 option to enable a specific workaround. After Windows 2000 is
1322 installed, you no longer need this option (this option slows down the
1325 @subsubsection Windows 2000 shutdown
1327 Windows 2000 cannot automatically shutdown in QEMU although Windows 98
1328 can. It comes from the fact that Windows 2000 does not automatically
1329 use the APM driver provided by the BIOS.
1331 In order to correct that, do the following (thanks to Struan
1332 Bartlett): go to the Control Panel => Add/Remove Hardware & Next =>
1333 Add/Troubleshoot a device => Add a new device & Next => No, select the
1334 hardware from a list & Next => NT Apm/Legacy Support & Next => Next
1335 (again) a few times. Now the driver is installed and Windows 2000 now
1336 correctly instructs QEMU to shutdown at the appropriate moment.
1338 @subsubsection Share a directory between Unix and Windows
1340 See @ref{sec_invocation} about the help of the option @option{-smb}.
1342 @subsubsection Windows XP security problem
1344 Some releases of Windows XP install correctly but give a security
1347 A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the
1348 license for this computer. Error code: 0x800703e6.
1351 The workaround is to install a service pack for XP after a boot in safe
1352 mode. Then reboot, and the problem should go away. Since there is no
1353 network while in safe mode, its recommended to download the full
1354 installation of SP1 or SP2 and transfer that via an ISO or using the
1355 vvfat block device ("-hdb fat:directory_which_holds_the_SP").
1357 @subsection MS-DOS and FreeDOS
1359 @subsubsection CPU usage reduction
1361 DOS does not correctly use the CPU HLT instruction. The result is that
1362 it takes host CPU cycles even when idle. You can install the utility
1363 from @url{http://www.vmware.com/software/dosidle210.zip} to solve this
1366 @node QEMU System emulator for non PC targets
1367 @chapter QEMU System emulator for non PC targets
1369 QEMU is a generic emulator and it emulates many non PC
1370 machines. Most of the options are similar to the PC emulator. The
1371 differences are mentioned in the following sections.
1374 * PowerPC System emulator::
1375 * Sparc32 System emulator::
1376 * Sparc64 System emulator::
1377 * MIPS System emulator::
1378 * ARM System emulator::
1379 * ColdFire System emulator::
1380 * Cris System emulator::
1381 * Microblaze System emulator::
1382 * SH4 System emulator::
1385 @node PowerPC System emulator
1386 @section PowerPC System emulator
1387 @cindex system emulation (PowerPC)
1389 Use the executable @file{qemu-system-ppc} to simulate a complete PREP
1390 or PowerMac PowerPC system.
1392 QEMU emulates the following PowerMac peripherals:
1396 UniNorth or Grackle PCI Bridge
1398 PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
1400 2 PMAC IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
1406 VIA-CUDA with ADB keyboard and mouse.
1409 QEMU emulates the following PREP peripherals:
1415 PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
1417 2 IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
1421 NE2000 network adapters
1425 PREP Non Volatile RAM
1427 PC compatible keyboard and mouse.
1430 QEMU uses the Open Hack'Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS available at
1431 @url{http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm}.
1433 Since version 0.9.1, QEMU uses OpenBIOS @url{http://www.openbios.org/}
1434 for the g3beige and mac99 PowerMac machines. OpenBIOS is a free (GPL
1435 v2) portable firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100%
1436 IEEE 1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.
1438 @c man begin OPTIONS
1440 The following options are specific to the PowerPC emulation:
1444 @item -g @var{W}x@var{H}[x@var{DEPTH}]
1446 Set the initial VGA graphic mode. The default is 800x600x15.
1448 @item -prom-env @var{string}
1450 Set OpenBIOS variables in NVRAM, for example:
1453 qemu-system-ppc -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false' \
1454 -prom-env 'boot-device=hd:2,\yaboot' \
1455 -prom-env 'boot-args=conf=hd:2,\yaboot.conf'
1458 These variables are not used by Open Hack'Ware.
1465 More information is available at
1466 @url{http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/qemu-ppc/}.
1468 @node Sparc32 System emulator
1469 @section Sparc32 System emulator
1470 @cindex system emulation (Sparc32)
1472 Use the executable @file{qemu-system-sparc} to simulate the following
1473 Sun4m architecture machines:
1488 SPARCstation Voyager
1495 The emulation is somewhat complete. SMP up to 16 CPUs is supported,
1496 but Linux limits the number of usable CPUs to 4.
1498 It's also possible to simulate a SPARCstation 2 (sun4c architecture),
1499 SPARCserver 1000, or SPARCcenter 2000 (sun4d architecture), but these
1500 emulators are not usable yet.
1502 QEMU emulates the following sun4m/sun4c/sun4d peripherals:
1510 Lance (Am7990) Ethernet
1512 Non Volatile RAM M48T02/M48T08
1514 Slave I/O: timers, interrupt controllers, Zilog serial ports, keyboard
1515 and power/reset logic
1517 ESP SCSI controller with hard disk and CD-ROM support
1519 Floppy drive (not on SS-600MP)
1521 CS4231 sound device (only on SS-5, not working yet)
1524 The number of peripherals is fixed in the architecture. Maximum
1525 memory size depends on the machine type, for SS-5 it is 256MB and for
1528 Since version 0.8.2, QEMU uses OpenBIOS
1529 @url{http://www.openbios.org/}. OpenBIOS is a free (GPL v2) portable
1530 firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100% IEEE
1531 1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.
1533 A sample Linux 2.6 series kernel and ram disk image are available on
1534 the QEMU web site. There are still issues with NetBSD and OpenBSD, but
1535 some kernel versions work. Please note that currently Solaris kernels
1536 don't work probably due to interface issues between OpenBIOS and
1539 @c man begin OPTIONS
1541 The following options are specific to the Sparc32 emulation:
1545 @item -g @var{W}x@var{H}x[x@var{DEPTH}]
1547 Set the initial TCX graphic mode. The default is 1024x768x8, currently
1548 the only other possible mode is 1024x768x24.
1550 @item -prom-env @var{string}
1552 Set OpenBIOS variables in NVRAM, for example:
1555 qemu-system-sparc -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false' \
1556 -prom-env 'boot-device=sd(0,2,0):d' -prom-env 'boot-args=linux single'
1559 @item -M [SS-4|SS-5|SS-10|SS-20|SS-600MP|LX|Voyager|SPARCClassic] [|SPARCbook|SS-2|SS-1000|SS-2000]
1561 Set the emulated machine type. Default is SS-5.
1567 @node Sparc64 System emulator
1568 @section Sparc64 System emulator
1569 @cindex system emulation (Sparc64)
1571 Use the executable @file{qemu-system-sparc64} to simulate a Sun4u
1572 (UltraSPARC PC-like machine), Sun4v (T1 PC-like machine), or generic
1573 Niagara (T1) machine. The emulator is not usable for anything yet, but
1574 it can launch some kernels.
1576 QEMU emulates the following peripherals:
1580 UltraSparc IIi APB PCI Bridge
1582 PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
1584 PS/2 mouse and keyboard
1586 Non Volatile RAM M48T59
1588 PC-compatible serial ports
1590 2 PCI IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
1595 @c man begin OPTIONS
1597 The following options are specific to the Sparc64 emulation:
1601 @item -prom-env @var{string}
1603 Set OpenBIOS variables in NVRAM, for example:
1606 qemu-system-sparc64 -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false'
1609 @item -M [sun4u|sun4v|Niagara]
1611 Set the emulated machine type. The default is sun4u.
1617 @node MIPS System emulator
1618 @section MIPS System emulator
1619 @cindex system emulation (MIPS)
1621 Four executables cover simulation of 32 and 64-bit MIPS systems in
1622 both endian options, @file{qemu-system-mips}, @file{qemu-system-mipsel}
1623 @file{qemu-system-mips64} and @file{qemu-system-mips64el}.
1624 Five different machine types are emulated:
1628 A generic ISA PC-like machine "mips"
1630 The MIPS Malta prototype board "malta"
1632 An ACER Pica "pica61". This machine needs the 64-bit emulator.
1634 MIPS emulator pseudo board "mipssim"
1636 A MIPS Magnum R4000 machine "magnum". This machine needs the 64-bit emulator.
1639 The generic emulation is supported by Debian 'Etch' and is able to
1640 install Debian into a virtual disk image. The following devices are
1645 A range of MIPS CPUs, default is the 24Kf
1647 PC style serial port
1654 The Malta emulation supports the following devices:
1658 Core board with MIPS 24Kf CPU and Galileo system controller
1660 PIIX4 PCI/USB/SMbus controller
1662 The Multi-I/O chip's serial device
1664 PCI network cards (PCnet32 and others)
1666 Malta FPGA serial device
1668 Cirrus (default) or any other PCI VGA graphics card
1671 The ACER Pica emulation supports:
1677 PC-style IRQ and DMA controllers
1684 The mipssim pseudo board emulation provides an environment similiar
1685 to what the proprietary MIPS emulator uses for running Linux.
1690 A range of MIPS CPUs, default is the 24Kf
1692 PC style serial port
1694 MIPSnet network emulation
1697 The MIPS Magnum R4000 emulation supports:
1703 PC-style IRQ controller
1713 @node ARM System emulator
1714 @section ARM System emulator
1715 @cindex system emulation (ARM)
1717 Use the executable @file{qemu-system-arm} to simulate a ARM
1718 machine. The ARM Integrator/CP board is emulated with the following
1723 ARM926E, ARM1026E, ARM946E, ARM1136 or Cortex-A8 CPU
1727 SMC 91c111 Ethernet adapter
1729 PL110 LCD controller
1731 PL050 KMI with PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
1733 PL181 MultiMedia Card Interface with SD card.
1736 The ARM Versatile baseboard is emulated with the following devices:
1740 ARM926E, ARM1136 or Cortex-A8 CPU
1742 PL190 Vectored Interrupt Controller
1746 SMC 91c111 Ethernet adapter
1748 PL110 LCD controller
1750 PL050 KMI with PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
1752 PCI host bridge. Note the emulated PCI bridge only provides access to
1753 PCI memory space. It does not provide access to PCI IO space.
1754 This means some devices (eg. ne2k_pci NIC) are not usable, and others
1755 (eg. rtl8139 NIC) are only usable when the guest drivers use the memory
1756 mapped control registers.
1758 PCI OHCI USB controller.
1760 LSI53C895A PCI SCSI Host Bus Adapter with hard disk and CD-ROM devices.
1762 PL181 MultiMedia Card Interface with SD card.
1765 Several variants of the ARM RealView baseboard are emulated,
1766 including the EB, PB-A8 and PBX-A9. Due to interactions with the
1767 bootloader, only certain Linux kernel configurations work out
1768 of the box on these boards.
1770 Kernels for the PB-A8 board should have CONFIG_REALVIEW_HIGH_PHYS_OFFSET
1771 enabled in the kernel, and expect 512M RAM. Kernels for The PBX-A9 board
1772 should have CONFIG_SPARSEMEM enabled, CONFIG_REALVIEW_HIGH_PHYS_OFFSET
1773 disabled and expect 1024M RAM.
1775 The following devices are emuilated:
1779 ARM926E, ARM1136, ARM11MPCore, Cortex-A8 or Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU
1781 ARM AMBA Generic/Distributed Interrupt Controller
1785 SMC 91c111 or SMSC LAN9118 Ethernet adapter
1787 PL110 LCD controller
1789 PL050 KMI with PS/2 keyboard and mouse
1793 PCI OHCI USB controller
1795 LSI53C895A PCI SCSI Host Bus Adapter with hard disk and CD-ROM devices
1797 PL181 MultiMedia Card Interface with SD card.
1800 The XScale-based clamshell PDA models ("Spitz", "Akita", "Borzoi"
1801 and "Terrier") emulation includes the following peripherals:
1805 Intel PXA270 System-on-chip (ARM V5TE core)
1809 IBM/Hitachi DSCM microdrive in a PXA PCMCIA slot - not in "Akita"
1811 On-chip OHCI USB controller
1813 On-chip LCD controller
1815 On-chip Real Time Clock
1817 TI ADS7846 touchscreen controller on SSP bus
1819 Maxim MAX1111 analog-digital converter on I@math{^2}C bus
1821 GPIO-connected keyboard controller and LEDs
1823 Secure Digital card connected to PXA MMC/SD host
1827 WM8750 audio CODEC on I@math{^2}C and I@math{^2}S busses
1830 The Palm Tungsten|E PDA (codename "Cheetah") emulation includes the
1835 Texas Instruments OMAP310 System-on-chip (ARM 925T core)
1837 ROM and RAM memories (ROM firmware image can be loaded with -option-rom)
1839 On-chip LCD controller
1841 On-chip Real Time Clock
1843 TI TSC2102i touchscreen controller / analog-digital converter / Audio
1844 CODEC, connected through MicroWire and I@math{^2}S busses
1846 GPIO-connected matrix keypad
1848 Secure Digital card connected to OMAP MMC/SD host
1853 Nokia N800 and N810 internet tablets (known also as RX-34 and RX-44 / 48)
1854 emulation supports the following elements:
1858 Texas Instruments OMAP2420 System-on-chip (ARM 1136 core)
1860 RAM and non-volatile OneNAND Flash memories
1862 Display connected to EPSON remote framebuffer chip and OMAP on-chip
1863 display controller and a LS041y3 MIPI DBI-C controller
1865 TI TSC2301 (in N800) and TI TSC2005 (in N810) touchscreen controllers
1866 driven through SPI bus
1868 National Semiconductor LM8323-controlled qwerty keyboard driven
1869 through I@math{^2}C bus
1871 Secure Digital card connected to OMAP MMC/SD host
1873 Three OMAP on-chip UARTs and on-chip STI debugging console
1875 A Bluetooth(R) transciever and HCI connected to an UART
1877 Mentor Graphics "Inventra" dual-role USB controller embedded in a TI
1878 TUSB6010 chip - only USB host mode is supported
1880 TI TMP105 temperature sensor driven through I@math{^2}C bus
1882 TI TWL92230C power management companion with an RTC on I@math{^2}C bus
1884 Nokia RETU and TAHVO multi-purpose chips with an RTC, connected
1888 The Luminary Micro Stellaris LM3S811EVB emulation includes the following
1895 64k Flash and 8k SRAM.
1897 Timers, UARTs, ADC and I@math{^2}C interface.
1899 OSRAM Pictiva 96x16 OLED with SSD0303 controller on I@math{^2}C bus.
1902 The Luminary Micro Stellaris LM3S6965EVB emulation includes the following
1909 256k Flash and 64k SRAM.
1911 Timers, UARTs, ADC, I@math{^2}C and SSI interfaces.
1913 OSRAM Pictiva 128x64 OLED with SSD0323 controller connected via SSI.
1916 The Freecom MusicPal internet radio emulation includes the following
1921 Marvell MV88W8618 ARM core.
1923 32 MB RAM, 256 KB SRAM, 8 MB flash.
1927 MV88W8xx8 Ethernet controller
1929 MV88W8618 audio controller, WM8750 CODEC and mixer
1931 128×64 display with brightness control
1933 2 buttons, 2 navigation wheels with button function
1936 The Siemens SX1 models v1 and v2 (default) basic emulation.
1937 The emulaton includes the following elements:
1941 Texas Instruments OMAP310 System-on-chip (ARM 925T core)
1943 ROM and RAM memories (ROM firmware image can be loaded with -pflash)
1945 1 Flash of 16MB and 1 Flash of 8MB
1949 On-chip LCD controller
1951 On-chip Real Time Clock
1953 Secure Digital card connected to OMAP MMC/SD host
1958 The "Syborg" Symbian Virtual Platform base model includes the following
1965 Interrupt controller
1980 A Linux 2.6 test image is available on the QEMU web site. More
1981 information is available in the QEMU mailing-list archive.
1983 @c man begin OPTIONS
1985 The following options are specific to the ARM emulation:
1990 Enable semihosting syscall emulation.
1992 On ARM this implements the "Angel" interface.
1994 Note that this allows guest direct access to the host filesystem,
1995 so should only be used with trusted guest OS.
1999 @node ColdFire System emulator
2000 @section ColdFire System emulator
2001 @cindex system emulation (ColdFire)
2002 @cindex system emulation (M68K)
2004 Use the executable @file{qemu-system-m68k} to simulate a ColdFire machine.
2005 The emulator is able to boot a uClinux kernel.
2007 The M5208EVB emulation includes the following devices:
2011 MCF5208 ColdFire V2 Microprocessor (ISA A+ with EMAC).
2013 Three Two on-chip UARTs.
2015 Fast Ethernet Controller (FEC)
2018 The AN5206 emulation includes the following devices:
2022 MCF5206 ColdFire V2 Microprocessor.
2027 @c man begin OPTIONS
2029 The following options are specific to the ColdFire emulation:
2034 Enable semihosting syscall emulation.
2036 On M68K this implements the "ColdFire GDB" interface used by libgloss.
2038 Note that this allows guest direct access to the host filesystem,
2039 so should only be used with trusted guest OS.
2043 @node Cris System emulator
2044 @section Cris System emulator
2045 @cindex system emulation (Cris)
2049 @node Microblaze System emulator
2050 @section Microblaze System emulator
2051 @cindex system emulation (Microblaze)
2055 @node SH4 System emulator
2056 @section SH4 System emulator
2057 @cindex system emulation (SH4)
2061 @node QEMU User space emulator
2062 @chapter QEMU User space emulator
2065 * Supported Operating Systems ::
2066 * Linux User space emulator::
2067 * Mac OS X/Darwin User space emulator ::
2068 * BSD User space emulator ::
2071 @node Supported Operating Systems
2072 @section Supported Operating Systems
2074 The following OS are supported in user space emulation:
2078 Linux (referred as qemu-linux-user)
2080 Mac OS X/Darwin (referred as qemu-darwin-user)
2082 BSD (referred as qemu-bsd-user)
2085 @node Linux User space emulator
2086 @section Linux User space emulator
2091 * Command line options::
2096 @subsection Quick Start
2098 In order to launch a Linux process, QEMU needs the process executable
2099 itself and all the target (x86) dynamic libraries used by it.
2103 @item On x86, you can just try to launch any process by using the native
2107 qemu-i386 -L / /bin/ls
2110 @code{-L /} tells that the x86 dynamic linker must be searched with a
2113 @item Since QEMU is also a linux process, you can launch qemu with
2114 qemu (NOTE: you can only do that if you compiled QEMU from the sources):
2117 qemu-i386 -L / qemu-i386 -L / /bin/ls
2120 @item On non x86 CPUs, you need first to download at least an x86 glibc
2121 (@file{qemu-runtime-i386-XXX-.tar.gz} on the QEMU web page). Ensure that
2122 @code{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} is not set:
2125 unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
2128 Then you can launch the precompiled @file{ls} x86 executable:
2131 qemu-i386 tests/i386/ls
2133 You can look at @file{qemu-binfmt-conf.sh} so that
2134 QEMU is automatically launched by the Linux kernel when you try to
2135 launch x86 executables. It requires the @code{binfmt_misc} module in the
2138 @item The x86 version of QEMU is also included. You can try weird things such as:
2140 qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/qemu-i386 \
2141 /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/ls-i386
2147 @subsection Wine launch
2151 @item Ensure that you have a working QEMU with the x86 glibc
2152 distribution (see previous section). In order to verify it, you must be
2156 qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/ls-i386
2159 @item Download the binary x86 Wine install
2160 (@file{qemu-XXX-i386-wine.tar.gz} on the QEMU web page).
2162 @item Configure Wine on your account. Look at the provided script
2163 @file{/usr/local/qemu-i386/@/bin/wine-conf.sh}. Your previous
2164 @code{$@{HOME@}/.wine} directory is saved to @code{$@{HOME@}/.wine.org}.
2166 @item Then you can try the example @file{putty.exe}:
2169 qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/wine/bin/wine \
2170 /usr/local/qemu-i386/wine/c/Program\ Files/putty.exe
2175 @node Command line options
2176 @subsection Command line options
2179 usage: qemu-i386 [-h] [-d] [-L path] [-s size] [-cpu model] [-g port] [-B offset] [-R size] program [arguments...]
2186 Set the x86 elf interpreter prefix (default=/usr/local/qemu-i386)
2188 Set the x86 stack size in bytes (default=524288)
2190 Select CPU model (-cpu ? for list and additional feature selection)
2191 @item -ignore-environment
2192 Start with an empty environment. Without this option,
2193 the inital environment is a copy of the caller's environment.
2194 @item -E @var{var}=@var{value}
2195 Set environment @var{var} to @var{value}.
2197 Remove @var{var} from the environment.
2199 Offset guest address by the specified number of bytes. This is useful when
2200 the address region required by guest applications is reserved on the host.
2201 This option is currently only supported on some hosts.
2203 Pre-allocate a guest virtual address space of the given size (in bytes).
2204 "G", "M", and "k" suffixes may be used when specifying the size.
2211 Activate log (logfile=/tmp/qemu.log)
2213 Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes
2215 Wait gdb connection to port
2217 Run the emulation in single step mode.
2220 Environment variables:
2224 Print system calls and arguments similar to the 'strace' program
2225 (NOTE: the actual 'strace' program will not work because the user
2226 space emulator hasn't implemented ptrace). At the moment this is
2227 incomplete. All system calls that don't have a specific argument
2228 format are printed with information for six arguments. Many
2229 flag-style arguments don't have decoders and will show up as numbers.
2232 @node Other binaries
2233 @subsection Other binaries
2235 @cindex user mode (Alpha)
2236 @command{qemu-alpha} TODO.
2238 @cindex user mode (ARM)
2239 @command{qemu-armeb} TODO.
2241 @cindex user mode (ARM)
2242 @command{qemu-arm} is also capable of running ARM "Angel" semihosted ELF
2243 binaries (as implemented by the arm-elf and arm-eabi Newlib/GDB
2244 configurations), and arm-uclinux bFLT format binaries.
2246 @cindex user mode (ColdFire)
2247 @cindex user mode (M68K)
2248 @command{qemu-m68k} is capable of running semihosted binaries using the BDM
2249 (m5xxx-ram-hosted.ld) or m68k-sim (sim.ld) syscall interfaces, and
2250 coldfire uClinux bFLT format binaries.
2252 The binary format is detected automatically.
2254 @cindex user mode (Cris)
2255 @command{qemu-cris} TODO.
2257 @cindex user mode (i386)
2258 @command{qemu-i386} TODO.
2259 @command{qemu-x86_64} TODO.
2261 @cindex user mode (Microblaze)
2262 @command{qemu-microblaze} TODO.
2264 @cindex user mode (MIPS)
2265 @command{qemu-mips} TODO.
2266 @command{qemu-mipsel} TODO.
2268 @cindex user mode (PowerPC)
2269 @command{qemu-ppc64abi32} TODO.
2270 @command{qemu-ppc64} TODO.
2271 @command{qemu-ppc} TODO.
2273 @cindex user mode (SH4)
2274 @command{qemu-sh4eb} TODO.
2275 @command{qemu-sh4} TODO.
2277 @cindex user mode (SPARC)
2278 @command{qemu-sparc} can execute Sparc32 binaries (Sparc32 CPU, 32 bit ABI).
2280 @command{qemu-sparc32plus} can execute Sparc32 and SPARC32PLUS binaries
2281 (Sparc64 CPU, 32 bit ABI).
2283 @command{qemu-sparc64} can execute some Sparc64 (Sparc64 CPU, 64 bit ABI) and
2284 SPARC32PLUS binaries (Sparc64 CPU, 32 bit ABI).
2286 @node Mac OS X/Darwin User space emulator
2287 @section Mac OS X/Darwin User space emulator
2290 * Mac OS X/Darwin Status::
2291 * Mac OS X/Darwin Quick Start::
2292 * Mac OS X/Darwin Command line options::
2295 @node Mac OS X/Darwin Status
2296 @subsection Mac OS X/Darwin Status
2300 target x86 on x86: Most apps (Cocoa and Carbon too) works. [1]
2302 target PowerPC on x86: Not working as the ppc commpage can't be mapped (yet!)
2304 target PowerPC on PowerPC: Most apps (Cocoa and Carbon too) works. [1]
2306 target x86 on PowerPC: most utilities work. Cocoa and Carbon apps are not yet supported.
2309 [1] If you're host commpage can be executed by qemu.
2311 @node Mac OS X/Darwin Quick Start
2312 @subsection Quick Start
2314 In order to launch a Mac OS X/Darwin process, QEMU needs the process executable
2315 itself and all the target dynamic libraries used by it. If you don't have the FAT
2316 libraries (you're running Mac OS X/ppc) you'll need to obtain it from a Mac OS X
2317 CD or compile them by hand.
2321 @item On x86, you can just try to launch any process by using the native
2328 or to run the ppc version of the executable:
2334 @item On ppc, you'll have to tell qemu where your x86 libraries (and dynamic linker)
2338 qemu-i386 -L /opt/x86_root/ /bin/ls
2341 @code{-L /opt/x86_root/} tells that the dynamic linker (dyld) path is in
2342 @file{/opt/x86_root/usr/bin/dyld}.
2346 @node Mac OS X/Darwin Command line options
2347 @subsection Command line options
2350 usage: qemu-i386 [-h] [-d] [-L path] [-s size] program [arguments...]
2357 Set the library root path (default=/)
2359 Set the stack size in bytes (default=524288)
2366 Activate log (logfile=/tmp/qemu.log)
2368 Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes
2370 Run the emulation in single step mode.
2373 @node BSD User space emulator
2374 @section BSD User space emulator
2379 * BSD Command line options::
2383 @subsection BSD Status
2387 target Sparc64 on Sparc64: Some trivial programs work.
2390 @node BSD Quick Start
2391 @subsection Quick Start
2393 In order to launch a BSD process, QEMU needs the process executable
2394 itself and all the target dynamic libraries used by it.
2398 @item On Sparc64, you can just try to launch any process by using the native
2402 qemu-sparc64 /bin/ls
2407 @node BSD Command line options
2408 @subsection Command line options
2411 usage: qemu-sparc64 [-h] [-d] [-L path] [-s size] [-bsd type] program [arguments...]
2418 Set the library root path (default=/)
2420 Set the stack size in bytes (default=524288)
2421 @item -ignore-environment
2422 Start with an empty environment. Without this option,
2423 the inital environment is a copy of the caller's environment.
2424 @item -E @var{var}=@var{value}
2425 Set environment @var{var} to @var{value}.
2427 Remove @var{var} from the environment.
2429 Set the type of the emulated BSD Operating system. Valid values are
2430 FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD (default).
2437 Activate log (logfile=/tmp/qemu.log)
2439 Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes
2441 Run the emulation in single step mode.
2445 @chapter Compilation from the sources
2450 * Cross compilation for Windows with Linux::
2458 @subsection Compilation
2460 First you must decompress the sources:
2463 tar zxvf qemu-x.y.z.tar.gz
2467 Then you configure QEMU and build it (usually no options are needed):
2473 Then type as root user:
2477 to install QEMU in @file{/usr/local}.
2483 @item Install the current versions of MSYS and MinGW from
2484 @url{http://www.mingw.org/}. You can find detailed installation
2485 instructions in the download section and the FAQ.
2488 the MinGW development library of SDL 1.2.x
2489 (@file{SDL-devel-1.2.x-@/mingw32.tar.gz}) from
2490 @url{http://www.libsdl.org}. Unpack it in a temporary place and
2491 edit the @file{sdl-config} script so that it gives the
2492 correct SDL directory when invoked.
2494 @item Install the MinGW version of zlib and make sure
2495 @file{zlib.h} and @file{libz.dll.a} are in
2496 MingGW's default header and linker search paths.
2498 @item Extract the current version of QEMU.
2500 @item Start the MSYS shell (file @file{msys.bat}).
2502 @item Change to the QEMU directory. Launch @file{./configure} and
2503 @file{make}. If you have problems using SDL, verify that
2504 @file{sdl-config} can be launched from the MSYS command line.
2506 @item You can install QEMU in @file{Program Files/Qemu} by typing
2507 @file{make install}. Don't forget to copy @file{SDL.dll} in
2508 @file{Program Files/Qemu}.
2512 @node Cross compilation for Windows with Linux
2513 @section Cross compilation for Windows with Linux
2517 Install the MinGW cross compilation tools available at
2518 @url{http://www.mingw.org/}.
2521 the MinGW development library of SDL 1.2.x
2522 (@file{SDL-devel-1.2.x-@/mingw32.tar.gz}) from
2523 @url{http://www.libsdl.org}. Unpack it in a temporary place and
2524 edit the @file{sdl-config} script so that it gives the
2525 correct SDL directory when invoked. Set up the @code{PATH} environment
2526 variable so that @file{sdl-config} can be launched by
2527 the QEMU configuration script.
2529 @item Install the MinGW version of zlib and make sure
2530 @file{zlib.h} and @file{libz.dll.a} are in
2531 MingGW's default header and linker search paths.
2534 Configure QEMU for Windows cross compilation:
2536 PATH=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin:$PATH ./configure --cross-prefix='i686-pc-mingw32-'
2538 The example assumes @file{sdl-config} is installed under @file{/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin} and
2539 MinGW cross compilation tools have names like @file{i686-pc-mingw32-gcc} and @file{i686-pc-mingw32-strip}.
2540 We set the @code{PATH} environment variable to ensure the MingW version of @file{sdl-config} is used and
2541 use --cross-prefix to specify the name of the cross compiler.
2542 You can also use --prefix to set the Win32 install path which defaults to @file{c:/Program Files/Qemu}.
2544 Under Fedora Linux, you can run:
2546 yum -y install mingw32-gcc mingw32-SDL mingw32-zlib
2548 to get a suitable cross compilation environment.
2550 @item You can install QEMU in the installation directory by typing
2551 @code{make install}. Don't forget to copy @file{SDL.dll} and @file{zlib1.dll} into the
2552 installation directory.
2556 Wine can be used to launch the resulting qemu.exe compiled for Win32.
2561 The Mac OS X patches are not fully merged in QEMU, so you should look
2562 at the QEMU mailing list archive to have all the necessary
2566 @section Make targets
2572 Make everything which is typically needed.
2581 Remove most files which were built during make.
2583 @item make distclean
2584 Remove everything which was built during make.
2590 Create documentation in dvi, html, info or pdf format.
2595 @item make defconfig
2596 (Re-)create some build configuration files.
2597 User made changes will be overwritten.
2608 QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.
2610 QEMU is released under the GNU General Public License (TODO: add link).
2611 Parts of QEMU have specific licenses, see file LICENSE.
2613 TODO (refer to file LICENSE, include it, include the GPL?)
2627 @section Concept Index
2628 This is the main index. Should we combine all keywords in one index? TODO
2631 @node Function Index
2632 @section Function Index
2633 This index could be used for command line options and monitor functions.
2636 @node Keystroke Index
2637 @section Keystroke Index
2639 This is a list of all keystrokes which have a special function
2640 in system emulation.
2645 @section Program Index
2648 @node Data Type Index
2649 @section Data Type Index
2651 This index could be used for qdev device names and options.
2655 @node Variable Index
2656 @section Variable Index