1 QEMU User space emulator
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4 Supported Operating Systems
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7 The following OS are supported in user space emulation:
9 - Linux (referred as qemu-linux-user)
11 - BSD (referred as qemu-bsd-user)
16 QEMU user space emulation has the following notable features:
18 **System call translation:**
19 QEMU includes a generic system call translator. This means that the
20 parameters of the system calls can be converted to fix endianness and
21 32/64-bit mismatches between hosts and targets. IOCTLs can be
24 **POSIX signal handling:**
25 QEMU can redirect to the running program all signals coming from the
26 host (such as ``SIGALRM``), as well as synthesize signals from
27 virtual CPU exceptions (for example ``SIGFPE`` when the program
28 executes a division by zero).
30 QEMU relies on the host kernel to emulate most signal system calls,
31 for example to emulate the signal mask. On Linux, QEMU supports both
32 normal and real-time signals.
35 On Linux, QEMU can emulate the ``clone`` syscall and create a real
36 host thread (with a separate virtual CPU) for each emulated thread.
37 Note that not all targets currently emulate atomic operations
38 correctly. x86 and Arm use a global lock in order to preserve their
41 QEMU was conceived so that ultimately it can emulate itself. Although it
42 is not very useful, it is an important test to show the power of the
45 Linux User space emulator
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53 qemu-i386 [-h] [-d] [-L path] [-s size] [-cpu model] [-g port] [-B offset] [-R size] program [arguments...]
59 Set the x86 elf interpreter prefix (default=/usr/local/qemu-i386)
62 Set the x86 stack size in bytes (default=524288)
65 Select CPU model (-cpu help for list and additional feature
69 Set environment var to value.
72 Remove var from the environment.
75 Offset guest address by the specified number of bytes. This is useful
76 when the address region required by guest applications is reserved on
77 the host. This option is currently only supported on some hosts.
80 Pre-allocate a guest virtual address space of the given size (in
81 bytes). \"G\", \"M\", and \"k\" suffixes may be used when specifying
87 Activate logging of the specified items (use '-d help' for a list of
91 Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes
94 Wait gdb connection to port
97 Run the emulation with one guest instruction per translation block.
98 This slows down emulation a lot, but can be useful in some situations,
99 such as when trying to analyse the logs produced by the ``-d`` option.
101 Environment variables:
104 Print system calls and arguments similar to the 'strace' program
105 (NOTE: the actual 'strace' program will not work because the user
106 space emulator hasn't implemented ptrace). At the moment this is
107 incomplete. All system calls that don't have a specific argument
108 format are printed with information for six arguments. Many
109 flag-style arguments don't have decoders and will show up as numbers.
116 * ``qemu-alpha`` TODO.
120 * ``qemu-armeb`` TODO.
122 * ``qemu-arm`` is also capable of running Arm \"Angel\" semihosted ELF
123 binaries (as implemented by the arm-elf and arm-eabi Newlib/GDB
124 configurations), and arm-uclinux bFLT format binaries.
126 - user mode (ColdFire)
130 * ``qemu-m68k`` is capable of running semihosted binaries using the BDM
131 (m5xxx-ram-hosted.ld) or m68k-sim (sim.ld) syscall interfaces, and
132 coldfire uClinux bFLT format binaries.
134 The binary format is detected automatically.
138 * ``qemu-cris`` TODO.
142 * ``qemu-i386`` TODO.
143 * ``qemu-x86_64`` TODO.
145 - user mode (Microblaze)
147 * ``qemu-microblaze`` TODO.
151 * ``qemu-mips`` executes 32-bit big endian MIPS binaries (MIPS O32 ABI).
153 * ``qemu-mipsel`` executes 32-bit little endian MIPS binaries (MIPS O32 ABI).
155 * ``qemu-mips64`` executes 64-bit big endian MIPS binaries (MIPS N64 ABI).
157 * ``qemu-mips64el`` executes 64-bit little endian MIPS binaries (MIPS N64
160 * ``qemu-mipsn32`` executes 32-bit big endian MIPS binaries (MIPS N32 ABI).
162 * ``qemu-mipsn32el`` executes 32-bit little endian MIPS binaries (MIPS N32
167 * ``qemu-nios2`` TODO.
169 - user mode (PowerPC)
171 * ``qemu-ppc64`` TODO.
176 * ``qemu-sh4eb`` TODO.
181 * ``qemu-sparc`` can execute Sparc32 binaries (Sparc32 CPU, 32 bit ABI).
183 * ``qemu-sparc32plus`` can execute Sparc32 and SPARC32PLUS binaries
184 (Sparc64 CPU, 32 bit ABI).
186 * ``qemu-sparc64`` can execute some Sparc64 (Sparc64 CPU, 64 bit ABI) and
187 SPARC32PLUS binaries (Sparc64 CPU, 32 bit ABI).
189 BSD User space emulator
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195 - target Sparc64 on Sparc64: Some trivial programs work.
200 In order to launch a BSD process, QEMU needs the process executable
201 itself and all the target dynamic libraries used by it.
203 - On Sparc64, you can just try to launch any process by using the
213 qemu-sparc64 [-h] [-d] [-L path] [-s size] [-bsd type] program [arguments...]
219 Set the library root path (default=/)
222 Set the stack size in bytes (default=524288)
224 ``-ignore-environment``
225 Start with an empty environment. Without this option, the initial
226 environment is a copy of the caller's environment.
229 Set environment var to value.
232 Remove var from the environment.
235 Set the type of the emulated BSD Operating system. Valid values are
236 FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD (default).
241 Activate logging of the specified items (use '-d help' for a list of
245 Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes
248 Run the emulation with one guest instruction per translation block.
249 This slows down emulation a lot, but can be useful in some situations,
250 such as when trying to analyse the logs produced by the ``-d`` option.