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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 Adlib(OPL2) - Yamaha YM3812 compatible chip
205 Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card
207 CS4231A compatible sound card
209 PCI UHCI USB controller and a virtual USB hub.
212 SMP is supported with up to 255 CPUs.
214 Note that adlib, gus and cs4231a are only available when QEMU was
215 configured with --audio-card-list option containing the name(s) of
218 QEMU uses the PC BIOS from the Bochs project and the Plex86/Bochs LGPL
221 QEMU uses YM3812 emulation by Tatsuyuki Satoh.
223 QEMU uses GUS emulation(GUSEMU32 @url{http://www.deinmeister.de/gusemu/})
224 by Tibor "TS" Schütz.
226 Not that, by default, GUS shares IRQ(7) with parallel ports and so
227 qemu must be told to not have parallel ports to have working GUS
230 qemu dos.img -soundhw gus -parallel none
235 qemu dos.img -device gus,irq=5
238 Or some other unclaimed IRQ.
240 CS4231A is the chip used in Windows Sound System and GUSMAX products
244 @node pcsys_quickstart
248 Download and uncompress the linux image (@file{linux.img}) and type:
254 Linux should boot and give you a prompt.
260 @c man begin SYNOPSIS
261 usage: qemu [options] [@var{disk_image}]
266 @var{disk_image} is a raw hard disk image for IDE hard disk 0. Some
267 targets do not need a disk image.
269 @include qemu-options.texi
278 During the graphical emulation, you can use the following keys:
286 Restore the screen's un-scaled dimensions
290 Switch to virtual console 'n'. Standard console mappings are:
293 Target system display
302 Toggle mouse and keyboard grab.
308 @kindex Ctrl-PageDown
309 In the virtual consoles, you can use @key{Ctrl-Up}, @key{Ctrl-Down},
310 @key{Ctrl-PageUp} and @key{Ctrl-PageDown} to move in the back log.
313 During emulation, if you are using the @option{-nographic} option, use
314 @key{Ctrl-a h} to get terminal commands:
327 Save disk data back to file (if -snapshot)
330 Toggle console timestamps
333 Send break (magic sysrq in Linux)
336 Switch between console and monitor
346 The HTML documentation of QEMU for more precise information and Linux
347 user mode emulator invocation.
357 @section QEMU Monitor
360 The QEMU monitor is used to give complex commands to the QEMU
361 emulator. You can use it to:
366 Remove or insert removable media images
367 (such as CD-ROM or floppies).
370 Freeze/unfreeze the Virtual Machine (VM) and save or restore its state
373 @item Inspect the VM state without an external debugger.
379 The following commands are available:
381 @include qemu-monitor.texi
383 @subsection Integer expressions
385 The monitor understands integers expressions for every integer
386 argument. You can use register names to get the value of specifics
387 CPU registers by prefixing them with @emph{$}.
392 Since version 0.6.1, QEMU supports many disk image formats, including
393 growable disk images (their size increase as non empty sectors are
394 written), compressed and encrypted disk images. Version 0.8.3 added
395 the new qcow2 disk image format which is essential to support VM
399 * disk_images_quickstart:: Quick start for disk image creation
400 * disk_images_snapshot_mode:: Snapshot mode
401 * vm_snapshots:: VM snapshots
402 * qemu_img_invocation:: qemu-img Invocation
403 * qemu_nbd_invocation:: qemu-nbd Invocation
404 * host_drives:: Using host drives
405 * disk_images_fat_images:: Virtual FAT disk images
406 * disk_images_nbd:: NBD access
409 @node disk_images_quickstart
410 @subsection Quick start for disk image creation
412 You can create a disk image with the command:
414 qemu-img create myimage.img mysize
416 where @var{myimage.img} is the disk image filename and @var{mysize} is its
417 size in kilobytes. You can add an @code{M} suffix to give the size in
418 megabytes and a @code{G} suffix for gigabytes.
420 See @ref{qemu_img_invocation} for more information.
422 @node disk_images_snapshot_mode
423 @subsection Snapshot mode
425 If you use the option @option{-snapshot}, all disk images are
426 considered as read only. When sectors in written, they are written in
427 a temporary file created in @file{/tmp}. You can however force the
428 write back to the raw disk images by using the @code{commit} monitor
429 command (or @key{C-a s} in the serial console).
432 @subsection VM snapshots
434 VM snapshots are snapshots of the complete virtual machine including
435 CPU state, RAM, device state and the content of all the writable
436 disks. In order to use VM snapshots, you must have at least one non
437 removable and writable block device using the @code{qcow2} disk image
438 format. Normally this device is the first virtual hard drive.
440 Use the monitor command @code{savevm} to create a new VM snapshot or
441 replace an existing one. A human readable name can be assigned to each
442 snapshot in addition to its numerical ID.
444 Use @code{loadvm} to restore a VM snapshot and @code{delvm} to remove
445 a VM snapshot. @code{info snapshots} lists the available snapshots
446 with their associated information:
449 (qemu) info snapshots
450 Snapshot devices: hda
451 Snapshot list (from hda):
452 ID TAG VM SIZE DATE VM CLOCK
453 1 start 41M 2006-08-06 12:38:02 00:00:14.954
454 2 40M 2006-08-06 12:43:29 00:00:18.633
455 3 msys 40M 2006-08-06 12:44:04 00:00:23.514
458 A VM snapshot is made of a VM state info (its size is shown in
459 @code{info snapshots}) and a snapshot of every writable disk image.
460 The VM state info is stored in the first @code{qcow2} non removable
461 and writable block device. The disk image snapshots are stored in
462 every disk image. The size of a snapshot in a disk image is difficult
463 to evaluate and is not shown by @code{info snapshots} because the
464 associated disk sectors are shared among all the snapshots to save
465 disk space (otherwise each snapshot would need a full copy of all the
468 When using the (unrelated) @code{-snapshot} option
469 (@ref{disk_images_snapshot_mode}), you can always make VM snapshots,
470 but they are deleted as soon as you exit QEMU.
472 VM snapshots currently have the following known limitations:
475 They cannot cope with removable devices if they are removed or
476 inserted after a snapshot is done.
478 A few device drivers still have incomplete snapshot support so their
479 state is not saved or restored properly (in particular USB).
482 @node qemu_img_invocation
483 @subsection @code{qemu-img} Invocation
485 @include qemu-img.texi
487 @node qemu_nbd_invocation
488 @subsection @code{qemu-nbd} Invocation
490 @include qemu-nbd.texi
493 @subsection Using host drives
495 In addition to disk image files, QEMU can directly access host
496 devices. We describe here the usage for QEMU version >= 0.8.3.
500 On Linux, you can directly use the host device filename instead of a
501 disk image filename provided you have enough privileges to access
502 it. For example, use @file{/dev/cdrom} to access to the CDROM or
503 @file{/dev/fd0} for the floppy.
507 You can specify a CDROM device even if no CDROM is loaded. QEMU has
508 specific code to detect CDROM insertion or removal. CDROM ejection by
509 the guest OS is supported. Currently only data CDs are supported.
511 You can specify a floppy device even if no floppy is loaded. Floppy
512 removal is currently not detected accurately (if you change floppy
513 without doing floppy access while the floppy is not loaded, the guest
514 OS will think that the same floppy is loaded).
516 Hard disks can be used. Normally you must specify the whole disk
517 (@file{/dev/hdb} instead of @file{/dev/hdb1}) so that the guest OS can
518 see it as a partitioned disk. WARNING: unless you know what you do, it
519 is better to only make READ-ONLY accesses to the hard disk otherwise
520 you may corrupt your host data (use the @option{-snapshot} command
521 line option or modify the device permissions accordingly).
524 @subsubsection Windows
528 The preferred syntax is the drive letter (e.g. @file{d:}). The
529 alternate syntax @file{\\.\d:} is supported. @file{/dev/cdrom} is
530 supported as an alias to the first CDROM drive.
532 Currently there is no specific code to handle removable media, so it
533 is better to use the @code{change} or @code{eject} monitor commands to
534 change or eject media.
536 Hard disks can be used with the syntax: @file{\\.\PhysicalDrive@var{N}}
537 where @var{N} is the drive number (0 is the first hard disk).
539 WARNING: unless you know what you do, it is better to only make
540 READ-ONLY accesses to the hard disk otherwise you may corrupt your
541 host data (use the @option{-snapshot} command line so that the
542 modifications are written in a temporary file).
546 @subsubsection Mac OS X
548 @file{/dev/cdrom} is an alias to the first CDROM.
550 Currently there is no specific code to handle removable media, so it
551 is better to use the @code{change} or @code{eject} monitor commands to
552 change or eject media.
554 @node disk_images_fat_images
555 @subsection Virtual FAT disk images
557 QEMU can automatically create a virtual FAT disk image from a
558 directory tree. In order to use it, just type:
561 qemu linux.img -hdb fat:/my_directory
564 Then you access access to all the files in the @file{/my_directory}
565 directory without having to copy them in a disk image or to export
566 them via SAMBA or NFS. The default access is @emph{read-only}.
568 Floppies can be emulated with the @code{:floppy:} option:
571 qemu linux.img -fda fat:floppy:/my_directory
574 A read/write support is available for testing (beta stage) with the
578 qemu linux.img -fda fat:floppy:rw:/my_directory
581 What you should @emph{never} do:
583 @item use non-ASCII filenames ;
584 @item use "-snapshot" together with ":rw:" ;
585 @item expect it to work when loadvm'ing ;
586 @item write to the FAT directory on the host system while accessing it with the guest system.
589 @node disk_images_nbd
590 @subsection NBD access
592 QEMU can access directly to block device exported using the Network Block Device
596 qemu linux.img -hdb nbd:my_nbd_server.mydomain.org:1024
599 If the NBD server is located on the same host, you can use an unix socket instead
603 qemu linux.img -hdb nbd:unix:/tmp/my_socket
606 In this case, the block device must be exported using qemu-nbd:
609 qemu-nbd --socket=/tmp/my_socket my_disk.qcow2
612 The use of qemu-nbd allows to share a disk between several guests:
614 qemu-nbd --socket=/tmp/my_socket --share=2 my_disk.qcow2
617 and then you can use it with two guests:
619 qemu linux1.img -hdb nbd:unix:/tmp/my_socket
620 qemu linux2.img -hdb nbd:unix:/tmp/my_socket
624 @section Network emulation
626 QEMU can simulate several network cards (PCI or ISA cards on the PC
627 target) and can connect them to an arbitrary number of Virtual Local
628 Area Networks (VLANs). Host TAP devices can be connected to any QEMU
629 VLAN. VLAN can be connected between separate instances of QEMU to
630 simulate large networks. For simpler usage, a non privileged user mode
631 network stack can replace the TAP device to have a basic network
636 QEMU simulates several VLANs. A VLAN can be symbolised as a virtual
637 connection between several network devices. These devices can be for
638 example QEMU virtual Ethernet cards or virtual Host ethernet devices
641 @subsection Using TAP network interfaces
643 This is the standard way to connect QEMU to a real network. QEMU adds
644 a virtual network device on your host (called @code{tapN}), and you
645 can then configure it as if it was a real ethernet card.
647 @subsubsection Linux host
649 As an example, you can download the @file{linux-test-xxx.tar.gz}
650 archive and copy the script @file{qemu-ifup} in @file{/etc} and
651 configure properly @code{sudo} so that the command @code{ifconfig}
652 contained in @file{qemu-ifup} can be executed as root. You must verify
653 that your host kernel supports the TAP network interfaces: the
654 device @file{/dev/net/tun} must be present.
656 See @ref{sec_invocation} to have examples of command lines using the
657 TAP network interfaces.
659 @subsubsection Windows host
661 There is a virtual ethernet driver for Windows 2000/XP systems, called
662 TAP-Win32. But it is not included in standard QEMU for Windows,
663 so you will need to get it separately. It is part of OpenVPN package,
664 so download OpenVPN from : @url{http://openvpn.net/}.
666 @subsection Using the user mode network stack
668 By using the option @option{-net user} (default configuration if no
669 @option{-net} option is specified), QEMU uses a completely user mode
670 network stack (you don't need root privilege to use the virtual
671 network). The virtual network configuration is the following:
675 QEMU VLAN <------> Firewall/DHCP server <-----> Internet
678 ----> DNS server (10.0.2.3)
680 ----> SMB server (10.0.2.4)
683 The QEMU VM behaves as if it was behind a firewall which blocks all
684 incoming connections. You can use a DHCP client to automatically
685 configure the network in the QEMU VM. The DHCP server assign addresses
686 to the hosts starting from 10.0.2.15.
688 In order to check that the user mode network is working, you can ping
689 the address 10.0.2.2 and verify that you got an address in the range
690 10.0.2.x from the QEMU virtual DHCP server.
692 Note that @code{ping} is not supported reliably to the internet as it
693 would require root privileges. It means you can only ping the local
696 When using the built-in TFTP server, the router is also the TFTP
699 When using the @option{-redir} option, TCP or UDP connections can be
700 redirected from the host to the guest. It allows for example to
701 redirect X11, telnet or SSH connections.
703 @subsection Connecting VLANs between QEMU instances
705 Using the @option{-net socket} option, it is possible to make VLANs
706 that span several QEMU instances. See @ref{sec_invocation} to have a
709 @section Other Devices
711 @subsection Inter-VM Shared Memory device
713 With KVM enabled on a Linux host, a shared memory device is available. Guests
714 map a POSIX shared memory region into the guest as a PCI device that enables
715 zero-copy communication to the application level of the guests. The basic
719 qemu -device ivshmem,size=<size in format accepted by -m>[,shm=<shm name>]
722 If desired, interrupts can be sent between guest VMs accessing the same shared
723 memory region. Interrupt support requires using a shared memory server and
724 using a chardev socket to connect to it. The code for the shared memory server
725 is qemu.git/contrib/ivshmem-server. An example syntax when using the shared
729 qemu -device ivshmem,size=<size in format accepted by -m>[,chardev=<id>]
730 [,msi=on][,ioeventfd=on][,vectors=n][,role=peer|master]
731 qemu -chardev socket,path=<path>,id=<id>
734 When using the server, the guest will be assigned a VM ID (>=0) that allows guests
735 using the same server to communicate via interrupts. Guests can read their
736 VM ID from a device register (see example code). Since receiving the shared
737 memory region from the server is asynchronous, there is a (small) chance the
738 guest may boot before the shared memory is attached. To allow an application
739 to ensure shared memory is attached, the VM ID register will return -1 (an
740 invalid VM ID) until the memory is attached. Once the shared memory is
741 attached, the VM ID will return the guest's valid VM ID. With these semantics,
742 the guest application can check to ensure the shared memory is attached to the
743 guest before proceeding.
745 The @option{role} argument can be set to either master or peer and will affect
746 how the shared memory is migrated. With @option{role=master}, the guest will
747 copy the shared memory on migration to the destination host. With
748 @option{role=peer}, the guest will not be able to migrate with the device attached.
749 With the @option{peer} case, the device should be detached and then reattached
750 after migration using the PCI hotplug support.
752 @node direct_linux_boot
753 @section Direct Linux Boot
755 This section explains how to launch a Linux kernel inside QEMU without
756 having to make a full bootable image. It is very useful for fast Linux
761 qemu -kernel arch/i386/boot/bzImage -hda root-2.4.20.img -append "root=/dev/hda"
764 Use @option{-kernel} to provide the Linux kernel image and
765 @option{-append} to give the kernel command line arguments. The
766 @option{-initrd} option can be used to provide an INITRD image.
768 When using the direct Linux boot, a disk image for the first hard disk
769 @file{hda} is required because its boot sector is used to launch the
772 If you do not need graphical output, you can disable it and redirect
773 the virtual serial port and the QEMU monitor to the console with the
774 @option{-nographic} option. The typical command line is:
776 qemu -kernel arch/i386/boot/bzImage -hda root-2.4.20.img \
777 -append "root=/dev/hda console=ttyS0" -nographic
780 Use @key{Ctrl-a c} to switch between the serial console and the
781 monitor (@pxref{pcsys_keys}).
784 @section USB emulation
786 QEMU emulates a PCI UHCI USB controller. You can virtually plug
787 virtual USB devices or real host USB devices (experimental, works only
788 on Linux hosts). Qemu will automatically create and connect virtual USB hubs
789 as necessary to connect multiple USB devices.
796 @subsection Connecting USB devices
798 USB devices can be connected with the @option{-usbdevice} commandline option
799 or the @code{usb_add} monitor command. Available devices are:
803 Virtual Mouse. This will override the PS/2 mouse emulation when activated.
805 Pointer device that uses absolute coordinates (like a touchscreen).
806 This means qemu is able to report the mouse position without having
807 to grab the mouse. Also overrides the PS/2 mouse emulation when activated.
808 @item disk:@var{file}
809 Mass storage device based on @var{file} (@pxref{disk_images})
810 @item host:@var{bus.addr}
811 Pass through the host device identified by @var{bus.addr}
813 @item host:@var{vendor_id:product_id}
814 Pass through the host device identified by @var{vendor_id:product_id}
817 Virtual Wacom PenPartner tablet. This device is similar to the @code{tablet}
818 above but it can be used with the tslib library because in addition to touch
819 coordinates it reports touch pressure.
821 Standard USB keyboard. Will override the PS/2 keyboard (if present).
822 @item serial:[vendorid=@var{vendor_id}][,product_id=@var{product_id}]:@var{dev}
823 Serial converter. This emulates an FTDI FT232BM chip connected to host character
824 device @var{dev}. The available character devices are the same as for the
825 @code{-serial} option. The @code{vendorid} and @code{productid} options can be
826 used to override the default 0403:6001. For instance,
828 usb_add serial:productid=FA00:tcp:192.168.0.2:4444
830 will connect to tcp port 4444 of ip 192.168.0.2, and plug that to the virtual
831 serial converter, faking a Matrix Orbital LCD Display (USB ID 0403:FA00).
833 Braille device. This will use BrlAPI to display the braille output on a real
835 @item net:@var{options}
836 Network adapter that supports CDC ethernet and RNDIS protocols. @var{options}
837 specifies NIC options as with @code{-net nic,}@var{options} (see description).
838 For instance, user-mode networking can be used with
840 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -net user,vlan=0 -usbdevice net:vlan=0
842 Currently this cannot be used in machines that support PCI NICs.
843 @item bt[:@var{hci-type}]
844 Bluetooth dongle whose type is specified in the same format as with
845 the @option{-bt hci} option, @pxref{bt-hcis,,allowed HCI types}. If
846 no type is given, the HCI logic corresponds to @code{-bt hci,vlan=0}.
847 This USB device implements the USB Transport Layer of HCI. Example
850 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -usbdevice bt:hci,vlan=3 -bt device:keyboard,vlan=3
854 @node host_usb_devices
855 @subsection Using host USB devices on a Linux host
857 WARNING: this is an experimental feature. QEMU will slow down when
858 using it. USB devices requiring real time streaming (i.e. USB Video
859 Cameras) are not supported yet.
862 @item If you use an early Linux 2.4 kernel, verify that no Linux driver
863 is actually using the USB device. A simple way to do that is simply to
864 disable the corresponding kernel module by renaming it from @file{mydriver.o}
865 to @file{mydriver.o.disabled}.
867 @item Verify that @file{/proc/bus/usb} is working (most Linux distributions should enable it by default). You should see something like that:
873 @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:
875 chown -R myuid /proc/bus/usb
878 @item Launch QEMU and do in the monitor:
881 Device 1.2, speed 480 Mb/s
882 Class 00: USB device 1234:5678, USB DISK
884 You should see the list of the devices you can use (Never try to use
885 hubs, it won't work).
887 @item Add the device in QEMU by using:
889 usb_add host:1234:5678
892 Normally the guest OS should report that a new USB device is
893 plugged. You can use the option @option{-usbdevice} to do the same.
895 @item Now you can try to use the host USB device in QEMU.
899 When relaunching QEMU, you may have to unplug and plug again the USB
900 device to make it work again (this is a bug).
903 @section VNC security
905 The VNC server capability provides access to the graphical console
906 of the guest VM across the network. This has a number of security
907 considerations depending on the deployment scenarios.
912 * vnc_sec_certificate::
913 * vnc_sec_certificate_verify::
914 * vnc_sec_certificate_pw::
916 * vnc_sec_certificate_sasl::
917 * vnc_generate_cert::
921 @subsection Without passwords
923 The simplest VNC server setup does not include any form of authentication.
924 For this setup it is recommended to restrict it to listen on a UNIX domain
925 socket only. For example
928 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc unix:/home/joebloggs/.qemu-myvm-vnc
931 This ensures that only users on local box with read/write access to that
932 path can access the VNC server. To securely access the VNC server from a
933 remote machine, a combination of netcat+ssh can be used to provide a secure
936 @node vnc_sec_password
937 @subsection With passwords
939 The VNC protocol has limited support for password based authentication. Since
940 the protocol limits passwords to 8 characters it should not be considered
941 to provide high security. The password can be fairly easily brute-forced by
942 a client making repeat connections. For this reason, a VNC server using password
943 authentication should be restricted to only listen on the loopback interface
944 or UNIX domain sockets. Password authentication is requested with the @code{password}
945 option, and then once QEMU is running the password is set with the monitor. Until
946 the monitor is used to set the password all clients will be rejected.
949 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,password -monitor stdio
950 (qemu) change vnc password
955 @node vnc_sec_certificate
956 @subsection With x509 certificates
958 The QEMU VNC server also implements the VeNCrypt extension allowing use of
959 TLS for encryption of the session, and x509 certificates for authentication.
960 The use of x509 certificates is strongly recommended, because TLS on its
961 own is susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. Basic x509 certificate
962 support provides a secure session, but no authentication. This allows any
963 client to connect, and provides an encrypted session.
966 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,tls,x509=/etc/pki/qemu -monitor stdio
969 In the above example @code{/etc/pki/qemu} should contain at least three files,
970 @code{ca-cert.pem}, @code{server-cert.pem} and @code{server-key.pem}. Unprivileged
971 users will want to use a private directory, for example @code{$HOME/.pki/qemu}.
972 NB the @code{server-key.pem} file should be protected with file mode 0600 to
973 only be readable by the user owning it.
975 @node vnc_sec_certificate_verify
976 @subsection With x509 certificates and client verification
978 Certificates can also provide a means to authenticate the client connecting.
979 The server will request that the client provide a certificate, which it will
980 then validate against the CA certificate. This is a good choice if deploying
981 in an environment with a private internal certificate authority.
984 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,tls,x509verify=/etc/pki/qemu -monitor stdio
988 @node vnc_sec_certificate_pw
989 @subsection With x509 certificates, client verification and passwords
991 Finally, the previous method can be combined with VNC password authentication
992 to provide two layers of authentication for clients.
995 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,password,tls,x509verify=/etc/pki/qemu -monitor stdio
996 (qemu) change vnc password
1003 @subsection With SASL authentication
1005 The SASL authentication method is a VNC extension, that provides an
1006 easily extendable, pluggable authentication method. This allows for
1007 integration with a wide range of authentication mechanisms, such as
1008 PAM, GSSAPI/Kerberos, LDAP, SQL databases, one-time keys and more.
1009 The strength of the authentication depends on the exact mechanism
1010 configured. If the chosen mechanism also provides a SSF layer, then
1011 it will encrypt the datastream as well.
1013 Refer to the later docs on how to choose the exact SASL mechanism
1014 used for authentication, but assuming use of one supporting SSF,
1015 then QEMU can be launched with:
1018 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,sasl -monitor stdio
1021 @node vnc_sec_certificate_sasl
1022 @subsection With x509 certificates and SASL authentication
1024 If the desired SASL authentication mechanism does not supported
1025 SSF layers, then it is strongly advised to run it in combination
1026 with TLS and x509 certificates. This provides securely encrypted
1027 data stream, avoiding risk of compromising of the security
1028 credentials. This can be enabled, by combining the 'sasl' option
1029 with the aforementioned TLS + x509 options:
1032 qemu [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,tls,x509,sasl -monitor stdio
1036 @node vnc_generate_cert
1037 @subsection Generating certificates for VNC
1039 The GNU TLS packages provides a command called @code{certtool} which can
1040 be used to generate certificates and keys in PEM format. At a minimum it
1041 is neccessary to setup a certificate authority, and issue certificates to
1042 each server. If using certificates for authentication, then each client
1043 will also need to be issued a certificate. The recommendation is for the
1044 server to keep its certificates in either @code{/etc/pki/qemu} or for
1045 unprivileged users in @code{$HOME/.pki/qemu}.
1049 * vnc_generate_server::
1050 * vnc_generate_client::
1052 @node vnc_generate_ca
1053 @subsubsection Setup the Certificate Authority
1055 This step only needs to be performed once per organization / organizational
1056 unit. First the CA needs a private key. This key must be kept VERY secret
1057 and secure. If this key is compromised the entire trust chain of the certificates
1058 issued with it is lost.
1061 # certtool --generate-privkey > ca-key.pem
1064 A CA needs to have a public certificate. For simplicity it can be a self-signed
1065 certificate, or one issue by a commercial certificate issuing authority. To
1066 generate a self-signed certificate requires one core piece of information, the
1067 name of the organization.
1070 # cat > ca.info <<EOF
1071 cn = Name of your organization
1075 # certtool --generate-self-signed \
1076 --load-privkey ca-key.pem
1077 --template ca.info \
1078 --outfile ca-cert.pem
1081 The @code{ca-cert.pem} file should be copied to all servers and clients wishing to utilize
1082 TLS support in the VNC server. The @code{ca-key.pem} must not be disclosed/copied at all.
1084 @node vnc_generate_server
1085 @subsubsection Issuing server certificates
1087 Each server (or host) needs to be issued with a key and certificate. When connecting
1088 the certificate is sent to the client which validates it against the CA certificate.
1089 The core piece of information for a server certificate is the hostname. This should
1090 be the fully qualified hostname that the client will connect with, since the client
1091 will typically also verify the hostname in the certificate. On the host holding the
1092 secure CA private key:
1095 # cat > server.info <<EOF
1096 organization = Name of your organization
1097 cn = server.foo.example.com
1102 # certtool --generate-privkey > server-key.pem
1103 # certtool --generate-certificate \
1104 --load-ca-certificate ca-cert.pem \
1105 --load-ca-privkey ca-key.pem \
1106 --load-privkey server server-key.pem \
1107 --template server.info \
1108 --outfile server-cert.pem
1111 The @code{server-key.pem} and @code{server-cert.pem} files should now be securely copied
1112 to the server for which they were generated. The @code{server-key.pem} is security
1113 sensitive and should be kept protected with file mode 0600 to prevent disclosure.
1115 @node vnc_generate_client
1116 @subsubsection Issuing client certificates
1118 If the QEMU VNC server is to use the @code{x509verify} option to validate client
1119 certificates as its authentication mechanism, each client also needs to be issued
1120 a certificate. The client certificate contains enough metadata to uniquely identify
1121 the client, typically organization, state, city, building, etc. On the host holding
1122 the secure CA private key:
1125 # cat > client.info <<EOF
1129 organiazation = Name of your organization
1130 cn = client.foo.example.com
1135 # certtool --generate-privkey > client-key.pem
1136 # certtool --generate-certificate \
1137 --load-ca-certificate ca-cert.pem \
1138 --load-ca-privkey ca-key.pem \
1139 --load-privkey client-key.pem \
1140 --template client.info \
1141 --outfile client-cert.pem
1144 The @code{client-key.pem} and @code{client-cert.pem} files should now be securely
1145 copied to the client for which they were generated.
1148 @node vnc_setup_sasl
1150 @subsection Configuring SASL mechanisms
1152 The following documentation assumes use of the Cyrus SASL implementation on a
1153 Linux host, but the principals should apply to any other SASL impl. When SASL
1154 is enabled, the mechanism configuration will be loaded from system default
1155 SASL service config /etc/sasl2/qemu.conf. If running QEMU as an
1156 unprivileged user, an environment variable SASL_CONF_PATH can be used
1157 to make it search alternate locations for the service config.
1159 The default configuration might contain
1162 mech_list: digest-md5
1163 sasldb_path: /etc/qemu/passwd.db
1166 This says to use the 'Digest MD5' mechanism, which is similar to the HTTP
1167 Digest-MD5 mechanism. The list of valid usernames & passwords is maintained
1168 in the /etc/qemu/passwd.db file, and can be updated using the saslpasswd2
1169 command. While this mechanism is easy to configure and use, it is not
1170 considered secure by modern standards, so only suitable for developers /
1173 A more serious deployment might use Kerberos, which is done with the 'gssapi'
1178 keytab: /etc/qemu/krb5.tab
1181 For this to work the administrator of your KDC must generate a Kerberos
1182 principal for the server, with a name of 'qemu/somehost.example.com@@EXAMPLE.COM'
1183 replacing 'somehost.example.com' with the fully qualified host name of the
1184 machine running QEMU, and 'EXAMPLE.COM' with the Keberos Realm.
1186 Other configurations will be left as an exercise for the reader. It should
1187 be noted that only Digest-MD5 and GSSAPI provides a SSF layer for data
1188 encryption. For all other mechanisms, VNC should always be configured to
1189 use TLS and x509 certificates to protect security credentials from snooping.
1194 QEMU has a primitive support to work with gdb, so that you can do
1195 'Ctrl-C' while the virtual machine is running and inspect its state.
1197 In order to use gdb, launch qemu with the '-s' option. It will wait for a
1200 > qemu -s -kernel arch/i386/boot/bzImage -hda root-2.4.20.img \
1201 -append "root=/dev/hda"
1202 Connected to host network interface: tun0
1203 Waiting gdb connection on port 1234
1206 Then launch gdb on the 'vmlinux' executable:
1211 In gdb, connect to QEMU:
1213 (gdb) target remote localhost:1234
1216 Then you can use gdb normally. For example, type 'c' to launch the kernel:
1221 Here are some useful tips in order to use gdb on system code:
1225 Use @code{info reg} to display all the CPU registers.
1227 Use @code{x/10i $eip} to display the code at the PC position.
1229 Use @code{set architecture i8086} to dump 16 bit code. Then use
1230 @code{x/10i $cs*16+$eip} to dump the code at the PC position.
1233 Advanced debugging options:
1235 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:
1237 @item maintenance packet qqemu.sstepbits
1239 This will display the MASK bits used to control the single stepping IE:
1241 (gdb) maintenance packet qqemu.sstepbits
1242 sending: "qqemu.sstepbits"
1243 received: "ENABLE=1,NOIRQ=2,NOTIMER=4"
1245 @item maintenance packet qqemu.sstep
1247 This will display the current value of the mask used when single stepping IE:
1249 (gdb) maintenance packet qqemu.sstep
1250 sending: "qqemu.sstep"
1253 @item maintenance packet Qqemu.sstep=HEX_VALUE
1255 This will change the single step mask, so if wanted to enable IRQs on the single step, but not timers, you would use:
1257 (gdb) maintenance packet Qqemu.sstep=0x5
1258 sending: "qemu.sstep=0x5"
1263 @node pcsys_os_specific
1264 @section Target OS specific information
1268 To have access to SVGA graphic modes under X11, use the @code{vesa} or
1269 the @code{cirrus} X11 driver. For optimal performances, use 16 bit
1270 color depth in the guest and the host OS.
1272 When using a 2.6 guest Linux kernel, you should add the option
1273 @code{clock=pit} on the kernel command line because the 2.6 Linux
1274 kernels make very strict real time clock checks by default that QEMU
1275 cannot simulate exactly.
1277 When using a 2.6 guest Linux kernel, verify that the 4G/4G patch is
1278 not activated because QEMU is slower with this patch. The QEMU
1279 Accelerator Module is also much slower in this case. Earlier Fedora
1280 Core 3 Linux kernel (< 2.6.9-1.724_FC3) were known to incorporate this
1281 patch by default. Newer kernels don't have it.
1285 If you have a slow host, using Windows 95 is better as it gives the
1286 best speed. Windows 2000 is also a good choice.
1288 @subsubsection SVGA graphic modes support
1290 QEMU emulates a Cirrus Logic GD5446 Video
1291 card. All Windows versions starting from Windows 95 should recognize
1292 and use this graphic card. For optimal performances, use 16 bit color
1293 depth in the guest and the host OS.
1295 If you are using Windows XP as guest OS and if you want to use high
1296 resolution modes which the Cirrus Logic BIOS does not support (i.e. >=
1297 1280x1024x16), then you should use the VESA VBE virtual graphic card
1298 (option @option{-std-vga}).
1300 @subsubsection CPU usage reduction
1302 Windows 9x does not correctly use the CPU HLT
1303 instruction. The result is that it takes host CPU cycles even when
1304 idle. You can install the utility from
1305 @url{http://www.user.cityline.ru/~maxamn/amnhltm.zip} to solve this
1306 problem. Note that no such tool is needed for NT, 2000 or XP.
1308 @subsubsection Windows 2000 disk full problem
1310 Windows 2000 has a bug which gives a disk full problem during its
1311 installation. When installing it, use the @option{-win2k-hack} QEMU
1312 option to enable a specific workaround. After Windows 2000 is
1313 installed, you no longer need this option (this option slows down the
1316 @subsubsection Windows 2000 shutdown
1318 Windows 2000 cannot automatically shutdown in QEMU although Windows 98
1319 can. It comes from the fact that Windows 2000 does not automatically
1320 use the APM driver provided by the BIOS.
1322 In order to correct that, do the following (thanks to Struan
1323 Bartlett): go to the Control Panel => Add/Remove Hardware & Next =>
1324 Add/Troubleshoot a device => Add a new device & Next => No, select the
1325 hardware from a list & Next => NT Apm/Legacy Support & Next => Next
1326 (again) a few times. Now the driver is installed and Windows 2000 now
1327 correctly instructs QEMU to shutdown at the appropriate moment.
1329 @subsubsection Share a directory between Unix and Windows
1331 See @ref{sec_invocation} about the help of the option @option{-smb}.
1333 @subsubsection Windows XP security problem
1335 Some releases of Windows XP install correctly but give a security
1338 A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the
1339 license for this computer. Error code: 0x800703e6.
1342 The workaround is to install a service pack for XP after a boot in safe
1343 mode. Then reboot, and the problem should go away. Since there is no
1344 network while in safe mode, its recommended to download the full
1345 installation of SP1 or SP2 and transfer that via an ISO or using the
1346 vvfat block device ("-hdb fat:directory_which_holds_the_SP").
1348 @subsection MS-DOS and FreeDOS
1350 @subsubsection CPU usage reduction
1352 DOS does not correctly use the CPU HLT instruction. The result is that
1353 it takes host CPU cycles even when idle. You can install the utility
1354 from @url{http://www.vmware.com/software/dosidle210.zip} to solve this
1357 @node QEMU System emulator for non PC targets
1358 @chapter QEMU System emulator for non PC targets
1360 QEMU is a generic emulator and it emulates many non PC
1361 machines. Most of the options are similar to the PC emulator. The
1362 differences are mentioned in the following sections.
1365 * PowerPC System emulator::
1366 * Sparc32 System emulator::
1367 * Sparc64 System emulator::
1368 * MIPS System emulator::
1369 * ARM System emulator::
1370 * ColdFire System emulator::
1371 * Cris System emulator::
1372 * Microblaze System emulator::
1373 * SH4 System emulator::
1376 @node PowerPC System emulator
1377 @section PowerPC System emulator
1378 @cindex system emulation (PowerPC)
1380 Use the executable @file{qemu-system-ppc} to simulate a complete PREP
1381 or PowerMac PowerPC system.
1383 QEMU emulates the following PowerMac peripherals:
1387 UniNorth or Grackle PCI Bridge
1389 PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
1391 2 PMAC IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
1397 VIA-CUDA with ADB keyboard and mouse.
1400 QEMU emulates the following PREP peripherals:
1406 PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
1408 2 IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
1412 NE2000 network adapters
1416 PREP Non Volatile RAM
1418 PC compatible keyboard and mouse.
1421 QEMU uses the Open Hack'Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS available at
1422 @url{http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm}.
1424 Since version 0.9.1, QEMU uses OpenBIOS @url{http://www.openbios.org/}
1425 for the g3beige and mac99 PowerMac machines. OpenBIOS is a free (GPL
1426 v2) portable firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100%
1427 IEEE 1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.
1429 @c man begin OPTIONS
1431 The following options are specific to the PowerPC emulation:
1435 @item -g @var{W}x@var{H}[x@var{DEPTH}]
1437 Set the initial VGA graphic mode. The default is 800x600x15.
1439 @item -prom-env @var{string}
1441 Set OpenBIOS variables in NVRAM, for example:
1444 qemu-system-ppc -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false' \
1445 -prom-env 'boot-device=hd:2,\yaboot' \
1446 -prom-env 'boot-args=conf=hd:2,\yaboot.conf'
1449 These variables are not used by Open Hack'Ware.
1456 More information is available at
1457 @url{http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/qemu-ppc/}.
1459 @node Sparc32 System emulator
1460 @section Sparc32 System emulator
1461 @cindex system emulation (Sparc32)
1463 Use the executable @file{qemu-system-sparc} to simulate the following
1464 Sun4m architecture machines:
1479 SPARCstation Voyager
1486 The emulation is somewhat complete. SMP up to 16 CPUs is supported,
1487 but Linux limits the number of usable CPUs to 4.
1489 It's also possible to simulate a SPARCstation 2 (sun4c architecture),
1490 SPARCserver 1000, or SPARCcenter 2000 (sun4d architecture), but these
1491 emulators are not usable yet.
1493 QEMU emulates the following sun4m/sun4c/sun4d peripherals:
1501 Lance (Am7990) Ethernet
1503 Non Volatile RAM M48T02/M48T08
1505 Slave I/O: timers, interrupt controllers, Zilog serial ports, keyboard
1506 and power/reset logic
1508 ESP SCSI controller with hard disk and CD-ROM support
1510 Floppy drive (not on SS-600MP)
1512 CS4231 sound device (only on SS-5, not working yet)
1515 The number of peripherals is fixed in the architecture. Maximum
1516 memory size depends on the machine type, for SS-5 it is 256MB and for
1519 Since version 0.8.2, QEMU uses OpenBIOS
1520 @url{http://www.openbios.org/}. OpenBIOS is a free (GPL v2) portable
1521 firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100% IEEE
1522 1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.
1524 A sample Linux 2.6 series kernel and ram disk image are available on
1525 the QEMU web site. There are still issues with NetBSD and OpenBSD, but
1526 some kernel versions work. Please note that currently Solaris kernels
1527 don't work probably due to interface issues between OpenBIOS and
1530 @c man begin OPTIONS
1532 The following options are specific to the Sparc32 emulation:
1536 @item -g @var{W}x@var{H}x[x@var{DEPTH}]
1538 Set the initial TCX graphic mode. The default is 1024x768x8, currently
1539 the only other possible mode is 1024x768x24.
1541 @item -prom-env @var{string}
1543 Set OpenBIOS variables in NVRAM, for example:
1546 qemu-system-sparc -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false' \
1547 -prom-env 'boot-device=sd(0,2,0):d' -prom-env 'boot-args=linux single'
1550 @item -M [SS-4|SS-5|SS-10|SS-20|SS-600MP|LX|Voyager|SPARCClassic] [|SPARCbook|SS-2|SS-1000|SS-2000]
1552 Set the emulated machine type. Default is SS-5.
1558 @node Sparc64 System emulator
1559 @section Sparc64 System emulator
1560 @cindex system emulation (Sparc64)
1562 Use the executable @file{qemu-system-sparc64} to simulate a Sun4u
1563 (UltraSPARC PC-like machine), Sun4v (T1 PC-like machine), or generic
1564 Niagara (T1) machine. The emulator is not usable for anything yet, but
1565 it can launch some kernels.
1567 QEMU emulates the following peripherals:
1571 UltraSparc IIi APB PCI Bridge
1573 PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
1575 PS/2 mouse and keyboard
1577 Non Volatile RAM M48T59
1579 PC-compatible serial ports
1581 2 PCI IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
1586 @c man begin OPTIONS
1588 The following options are specific to the Sparc64 emulation:
1592 @item -prom-env @var{string}
1594 Set OpenBIOS variables in NVRAM, for example:
1597 qemu-system-sparc64 -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false'
1600 @item -M [sun4u|sun4v|Niagara]
1602 Set the emulated machine type. The default is sun4u.
1608 @node MIPS System emulator
1609 @section MIPS System emulator
1610 @cindex system emulation (MIPS)
1612 Four executables cover simulation of 32 and 64-bit MIPS systems in
1613 both endian options, @file{qemu-system-mips}, @file{qemu-system-mipsel}
1614 @file{qemu-system-mips64} and @file{qemu-system-mips64el}.
1615 Five different machine types are emulated:
1619 A generic ISA PC-like machine "mips"
1621 The MIPS Malta prototype board "malta"
1623 An ACER Pica "pica61". This machine needs the 64-bit emulator.
1625 MIPS emulator pseudo board "mipssim"
1627 A MIPS Magnum R4000 machine "magnum". This machine needs the 64-bit emulator.
1630 The generic emulation is supported by Debian 'Etch' and is able to
1631 install Debian into a virtual disk image. The following devices are
1636 A range of MIPS CPUs, default is the 24Kf
1638 PC style serial port
1645 The Malta emulation supports the following devices:
1649 Core board with MIPS 24Kf CPU and Galileo system controller
1651 PIIX4 PCI/USB/SMbus controller
1653 The Multi-I/O chip's serial device
1655 PCI network cards (PCnet32 and others)
1657 Malta FPGA serial device
1659 Cirrus (default) or any other PCI VGA graphics card
1662 The ACER Pica emulation supports:
1668 PC-style IRQ and DMA controllers
1675 The mipssim pseudo board emulation provides an environment similiar
1676 to what the proprietary MIPS emulator uses for running Linux.
1681 A range of MIPS CPUs, default is the 24Kf
1683 PC style serial port
1685 MIPSnet network emulation
1688 The MIPS Magnum R4000 emulation supports:
1694 PC-style IRQ controller
1704 @node ARM System emulator
1705 @section ARM System emulator
1706 @cindex system emulation (ARM)
1708 Use the executable @file{qemu-system-arm} to simulate a ARM
1709 machine. The ARM Integrator/CP board is emulated with the following
1714 ARM926E, ARM1026E, ARM946E, ARM1136 or Cortex-A8 CPU
1718 SMC 91c111 Ethernet adapter
1720 PL110 LCD controller
1722 PL050 KMI with PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
1724 PL181 MultiMedia Card Interface with SD card.
1727 The ARM Versatile baseboard is emulated with the following devices:
1731 ARM926E, ARM1136 or Cortex-A8 CPU
1733 PL190 Vectored Interrupt Controller
1737 SMC 91c111 Ethernet adapter
1739 PL110 LCD controller
1741 PL050 KMI with PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
1743 PCI host bridge. Note the emulated PCI bridge only provides access to
1744 PCI memory space. It does not provide access to PCI IO space.
1745 This means some devices (eg. ne2k_pci NIC) are not usable, and others
1746 (eg. rtl8139 NIC) are only usable when the guest drivers use the memory
1747 mapped control registers.
1749 PCI OHCI USB controller.
1751 LSI53C895A PCI SCSI Host Bus Adapter with hard disk and CD-ROM devices.
1753 PL181 MultiMedia Card Interface with SD card.
1756 Several variants of the ARM RealView baseboard are emulated,
1757 including the EB, PB-A8 and PBX-A9. Due to interactions with the
1758 bootloader, only certain Linux kernel configurations work out
1759 of the box on these boards.
1761 Kernels for the PB-A8 board should have CONFIG_REALVIEW_HIGH_PHYS_OFFSET
1762 enabled in the kernel, and expect 512M RAM. Kernels for The PBX-A9 board
1763 should have CONFIG_SPARSEMEM enabled, CONFIG_REALVIEW_HIGH_PHYS_OFFSET
1764 disabled and expect 1024M RAM.
1766 The following devices are emuilated:
1770 ARM926E, ARM1136, ARM11MPCore, Cortex-A8 or Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU
1772 ARM AMBA Generic/Distributed Interrupt Controller
1776 SMC 91c111 or SMSC LAN9118 Ethernet adapter
1778 PL110 LCD controller
1780 PL050 KMI with PS/2 keyboard and mouse
1784 PCI OHCI USB controller
1786 LSI53C895A PCI SCSI Host Bus Adapter with hard disk and CD-ROM devices
1788 PL181 MultiMedia Card Interface with SD card.
1791 The XScale-based clamshell PDA models ("Spitz", "Akita", "Borzoi"
1792 and "Terrier") emulation includes the following peripherals:
1796 Intel PXA270 System-on-chip (ARM V5TE core)
1800 IBM/Hitachi DSCM microdrive in a PXA PCMCIA slot - not in "Akita"
1802 On-chip OHCI USB controller
1804 On-chip LCD controller
1806 On-chip Real Time Clock
1808 TI ADS7846 touchscreen controller on SSP bus
1810 Maxim MAX1111 analog-digital converter on I@math{^2}C bus
1812 GPIO-connected keyboard controller and LEDs
1814 Secure Digital card connected to PXA MMC/SD host
1818 WM8750 audio CODEC on I@math{^2}C and I@math{^2}S busses
1821 The Palm Tungsten|E PDA (codename "Cheetah") emulation includes the
1826 Texas Instruments OMAP310 System-on-chip (ARM 925T core)
1828 ROM and RAM memories (ROM firmware image can be loaded with -option-rom)
1830 On-chip LCD controller
1832 On-chip Real Time Clock
1834 TI TSC2102i touchscreen controller / analog-digital converter / Audio
1835 CODEC, connected through MicroWire and I@math{^2}S busses
1837 GPIO-connected matrix keypad
1839 Secure Digital card connected to OMAP MMC/SD host
1844 Nokia N800 and N810 internet tablets (known also as RX-34 and RX-44 / 48)
1845 emulation supports the following elements:
1849 Texas Instruments OMAP2420 System-on-chip (ARM 1136 core)
1851 RAM and non-volatile OneNAND Flash memories
1853 Display connected to EPSON remote framebuffer chip and OMAP on-chip
1854 display controller and a LS041y3 MIPI DBI-C controller
1856 TI TSC2301 (in N800) and TI TSC2005 (in N810) touchscreen controllers
1857 driven through SPI bus
1859 National Semiconductor LM8323-controlled qwerty keyboard driven
1860 through I@math{^2}C bus
1862 Secure Digital card connected to OMAP MMC/SD host
1864 Three OMAP on-chip UARTs and on-chip STI debugging console
1866 A Bluetooth(R) transciever and HCI connected to an UART
1868 Mentor Graphics "Inventra" dual-role USB controller embedded in a TI
1869 TUSB6010 chip - only USB host mode is supported
1871 TI TMP105 temperature sensor driven through I@math{^2}C bus
1873 TI TWL92230C power management companion with an RTC on I@math{^2}C bus
1875 Nokia RETU and TAHVO multi-purpose chips with an RTC, connected
1879 The Luminary Micro Stellaris LM3S811EVB emulation includes the following
1886 64k Flash and 8k SRAM.
1888 Timers, UARTs, ADC and I@math{^2}C interface.
1890 OSRAM Pictiva 96x16 OLED with SSD0303 controller on I@math{^2}C bus.
1893 The Luminary Micro Stellaris LM3S6965EVB emulation includes the following
1900 256k Flash and 64k SRAM.
1902 Timers, UARTs, ADC, I@math{^2}C and SSI interfaces.
1904 OSRAM Pictiva 128x64 OLED with SSD0323 controller connected via SSI.
1907 The Freecom MusicPal internet radio emulation includes the following
1912 Marvell MV88W8618 ARM core.
1914 32 MB RAM, 256 KB SRAM, 8 MB flash.
1918 MV88W8xx8 Ethernet controller
1920 MV88W8618 audio controller, WM8750 CODEC and mixer
1922 128×64 display with brightness control
1924 2 buttons, 2 navigation wheels with button function
1927 The Siemens SX1 models v1 and v2 (default) basic emulation.
1928 The emulaton includes the following elements:
1932 Texas Instruments OMAP310 System-on-chip (ARM 925T core)
1934 ROM and RAM memories (ROM firmware image can be loaded with -pflash)
1936 1 Flash of 16MB and 1 Flash of 8MB
1940 On-chip LCD controller
1942 On-chip Real Time Clock
1944 Secure Digital card connected to OMAP MMC/SD host
1949 The "Syborg" Symbian Virtual Platform base model includes the following
1956 Interrupt controller
1971 A Linux 2.6 test image is available on the QEMU web site. More
1972 information is available in the QEMU mailing-list archive.
1974 @c man begin OPTIONS
1976 The following options are specific to the ARM emulation:
1981 Enable semihosting syscall emulation.
1983 On ARM this implements the "Angel" interface.
1985 Note that this allows guest direct access to the host filesystem,
1986 so should only be used with trusted guest OS.
1990 @node ColdFire System emulator
1991 @section ColdFire System emulator
1992 @cindex system emulation (ColdFire)
1993 @cindex system emulation (M68K)
1995 Use the executable @file{qemu-system-m68k} to simulate a ColdFire machine.
1996 The emulator is able to boot a uClinux kernel.
1998 The M5208EVB emulation includes the following devices:
2002 MCF5208 ColdFire V2 Microprocessor (ISA A+ with EMAC).
2004 Three Two on-chip UARTs.
2006 Fast Ethernet Controller (FEC)
2009 The AN5206 emulation includes the following devices:
2013 MCF5206 ColdFire V2 Microprocessor.
2018 @c man begin OPTIONS
2020 The following options are specific to the ColdFire emulation:
2025 Enable semihosting syscall emulation.
2027 On M68K this implements the "ColdFire GDB" interface used by libgloss.
2029 Note that this allows guest direct access to the host filesystem,
2030 so should only be used with trusted guest OS.
2034 @node Cris System emulator
2035 @section Cris System emulator
2036 @cindex system emulation (Cris)
2040 @node Microblaze System emulator
2041 @section Microblaze System emulator
2042 @cindex system emulation (Microblaze)
2046 @node SH4 System emulator
2047 @section SH4 System emulator
2048 @cindex system emulation (SH4)
2052 @node QEMU User space emulator
2053 @chapter QEMU User space emulator
2056 * Supported Operating Systems ::
2057 * Linux User space emulator::
2058 * Mac OS X/Darwin User space emulator ::
2059 * BSD User space emulator ::
2062 @node Supported Operating Systems
2063 @section Supported Operating Systems
2065 The following OS are supported in user space emulation:
2069 Linux (referred as qemu-linux-user)
2071 Mac OS X/Darwin (referred as qemu-darwin-user)
2073 BSD (referred as qemu-bsd-user)
2076 @node Linux User space emulator
2077 @section Linux User space emulator
2082 * Command line options::
2087 @subsection Quick Start
2089 In order to launch a Linux process, QEMU needs the process executable
2090 itself and all the target (x86) dynamic libraries used by it.
2094 @item On x86, you can just try to launch any process by using the native
2098 qemu-i386 -L / /bin/ls
2101 @code{-L /} tells that the x86 dynamic linker must be searched with a
2104 @item Since QEMU is also a linux process, you can launch qemu with
2105 qemu (NOTE: you can only do that if you compiled QEMU from the sources):
2108 qemu-i386 -L / qemu-i386 -L / /bin/ls
2111 @item On non x86 CPUs, you need first to download at least an x86 glibc
2112 (@file{qemu-runtime-i386-XXX-.tar.gz} on the QEMU web page). Ensure that
2113 @code{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} is not set:
2116 unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
2119 Then you can launch the precompiled @file{ls} x86 executable:
2122 qemu-i386 tests/i386/ls
2124 You can look at @file{qemu-binfmt-conf.sh} so that
2125 QEMU is automatically launched by the Linux kernel when you try to
2126 launch x86 executables. It requires the @code{binfmt_misc} module in the
2129 @item The x86 version of QEMU is also included. You can try weird things such as:
2131 qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/qemu-i386 \
2132 /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/ls-i386
2138 @subsection Wine launch
2142 @item Ensure that you have a working QEMU with the x86 glibc
2143 distribution (see previous section). In order to verify it, you must be
2147 qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/bin/ls-i386
2150 @item Download the binary x86 Wine install
2151 (@file{qemu-XXX-i386-wine.tar.gz} on the QEMU web page).
2153 @item Configure Wine on your account. Look at the provided script
2154 @file{/usr/local/qemu-i386/@/bin/wine-conf.sh}. Your previous
2155 @code{$@{HOME@}/.wine} directory is saved to @code{$@{HOME@}/.wine.org}.
2157 @item Then you can try the example @file{putty.exe}:
2160 qemu-i386 /usr/local/qemu-i386/wine/bin/wine \
2161 /usr/local/qemu-i386/wine/c/Program\ Files/putty.exe
2166 @node Command line options
2167 @subsection Command line options
2170 usage: qemu-i386 [-h] [-d] [-L path] [-s size] [-cpu model] [-g port] [-B offset] [-R size] program [arguments...]
2177 Set the x86 elf interpreter prefix (default=/usr/local/qemu-i386)
2179 Set the x86 stack size in bytes (default=524288)
2181 Select CPU model (-cpu ? for list and additional feature selection)
2183 Offset guest address by the specified number of bytes. This is useful when
2184 the address region required by guest applications is reserved on the host.
2185 This option is currently only supported on some hosts.
2187 Pre-allocate a guest virtual address space of the given size (in bytes).
2188 "G", "M", and "k" suffixes may be used when specifying the size.
2195 Activate log (logfile=/tmp/qemu.log)
2197 Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes
2199 Wait gdb connection to port
2201 Run the emulation in single step mode.
2204 Environment variables:
2208 Print system calls and arguments similar to the 'strace' program
2209 (NOTE: the actual 'strace' program will not work because the user
2210 space emulator hasn't implemented ptrace). At the moment this is
2211 incomplete. All system calls that don't have a specific argument
2212 format are printed with information for six arguments. Many
2213 flag-style arguments don't have decoders and will show up as numbers.
2216 @node Other binaries
2217 @subsection Other binaries
2219 @cindex user mode (Alpha)
2220 @command{qemu-alpha} TODO.
2222 @cindex user mode (ARM)
2223 @command{qemu-armeb} TODO.
2225 @cindex user mode (ARM)
2226 @command{qemu-arm} is also capable of running ARM "Angel" semihosted ELF
2227 binaries (as implemented by the arm-elf and arm-eabi Newlib/GDB
2228 configurations), and arm-uclinux bFLT format binaries.
2230 @cindex user mode (ColdFire)
2231 @cindex user mode (M68K)
2232 @command{qemu-m68k} is capable of running semihosted binaries using the BDM
2233 (m5xxx-ram-hosted.ld) or m68k-sim (sim.ld) syscall interfaces, and
2234 coldfire uClinux bFLT format binaries.
2236 The binary format is detected automatically.
2238 @cindex user mode (Cris)
2239 @command{qemu-cris} TODO.
2241 @cindex user mode (i386)
2242 @command{qemu-i386} TODO.
2243 @command{qemu-x86_64} TODO.
2245 @cindex user mode (Microblaze)
2246 @command{qemu-microblaze} TODO.
2248 @cindex user mode (MIPS)
2249 @command{qemu-mips} TODO.
2250 @command{qemu-mipsel} TODO.
2252 @cindex user mode (PowerPC)
2253 @command{qemu-ppc64abi32} TODO.
2254 @command{qemu-ppc64} TODO.
2255 @command{qemu-ppc} TODO.
2257 @cindex user mode (SH4)
2258 @command{qemu-sh4eb} TODO.
2259 @command{qemu-sh4} TODO.
2261 @cindex user mode (SPARC)
2262 @command{qemu-sparc} can execute Sparc32 binaries (Sparc32 CPU, 32 bit ABI).
2264 @command{qemu-sparc32plus} can execute Sparc32 and SPARC32PLUS binaries
2265 (Sparc64 CPU, 32 bit ABI).
2267 @command{qemu-sparc64} can execute some Sparc64 (Sparc64 CPU, 64 bit ABI) and
2268 SPARC32PLUS binaries (Sparc64 CPU, 32 bit ABI).
2270 @node Mac OS X/Darwin User space emulator
2271 @section Mac OS X/Darwin User space emulator
2274 * Mac OS X/Darwin Status::
2275 * Mac OS X/Darwin Quick Start::
2276 * Mac OS X/Darwin Command line options::
2279 @node Mac OS X/Darwin Status
2280 @subsection Mac OS X/Darwin Status
2284 target x86 on x86: Most apps (Cocoa and Carbon too) works. [1]
2286 target PowerPC on x86: Not working as the ppc commpage can't be mapped (yet!)
2288 target PowerPC on PowerPC: Most apps (Cocoa and Carbon too) works. [1]
2290 target x86 on PowerPC: most utilities work. Cocoa and Carbon apps are not yet supported.
2293 [1] If you're host commpage can be executed by qemu.
2295 @node Mac OS X/Darwin Quick Start
2296 @subsection Quick Start
2298 In order to launch a Mac OS X/Darwin process, QEMU needs the process executable
2299 itself and all the target dynamic libraries used by it. If you don't have the FAT
2300 libraries (you're running Mac OS X/ppc) you'll need to obtain it from a Mac OS X
2301 CD or compile them by hand.
2305 @item On x86, you can just try to launch any process by using the native
2312 or to run the ppc version of the executable:
2318 @item On ppc, you'll have to tell qemu where your x86 libraries (and dynamic linker)
2322 qemu-i386 -L /opt/x86_root/ /bin/ls
2325 @code{-L /opt/x86_root/} tells that the dynamic linker (dyld) path is in
2326 @file{/opt/x86_root/usr/bin/dyld}.
2330 @node Mac OS X/Darwin Command line options
2331 @subsection Command line options
2334 usage: qemu-i386 [-h] [-d] [-L path] [-s size] program [arguments...]
2341 Set the library root path (default=/)
2343 Set the stack size in bytes (default=524288)
2350 Activate log (logfile=/tmp/qemu.log)
2352 Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes
2354 Run the emulation in single step mode.
2357 @node BSD User space emulator
2358 @section BSD User space emulator
2363 * BSD Command line options::
2367 @subsection BSD Status
2371 target Sparc64 on Sparc64: Some trivial programs work.
2374 @node BSD Quick Start
2375 @subsection Quick Start
2377 In order to launch a BSD process, QEMU needs the process executable
2378 itself and all the target dynamic libraries used by it.
2382 @item On Sparc64, you can just try to launch any process by using the native
2386 qemu-sparc64 /bin/ls
2391 @node BSD Command line options
2392 @subsection Command line options
2395 usage: qemu-sparc64 [-h] [-d] [-L path] [-s size] [-bsd type] program [arguments...]
2402 Set the library root path (default=/)
2404 Set the stack size in bytes (default=524288)
2406 Set the type of the emulated BSD Operating system. Valid values are
2407 FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD (default).
2414 Activate log (logfile=/tmp/qemu.log)
2416 Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes
2418 Run the emulation in single step mode.
2422 @chapter Compilation from the sources
2427 * Cross compilation for Windows with Linux::
2435 @subsection Compilation
2437 First you must decompress the sources:
2440 tar zxvf qemu-x.y.z.tar.gz
2444 Then you configure QEMU and build it (usually no options are needed):
2450 Then type as root user:
2454 to install QEMU in @file{/usr/local}.
2460 @item Install the current versions of MSYS and MinGW from
2461 @url{http://www.mingw.org/}. You can find detailed installation
2462 instructions in the download section and the FAQ.
2465 the MinGW development library of SDL 1.2.x
2466 (@file{SDL-devel-1.2.x-@/mingw32.tar.gz}) from
2467 @url{http://www.libsdl.org}. Unpack it in a temporary place and
2468 edit the @file{sdl-config} script so that it gives the
2469 correct SDL directory when invoked.
2471 @item Install the MinGW version of zlib and make sure
2472 @file{zlib.h} and @file{libz.dll.a} are in
2473 MingGW's default header and linker search paths.
2475 @item Extract the current version of QEMU.
2477 @item Start the MSYS shell (file @file{msys.bat}).
2479 @item Change to the QEMU directory. Launch @file{./configure} and
2480 @file{make}. If you have problems using SDL, verify that
2481 @file{sdl-config} can be launched from the MSYS command line.
2483 @item You can install QEMU in @file{Program Files/Qemu} by typing
2484 @file{make install}. Don't forget to copy @file{SDL.dll} in
2485 @file{Program Files/Qemu}.
2489 @node Cross compilation for Windows with Linux
2490 @section Cross compilation for Windows with Linux
2494 Install the MinGW cross compilation tools available at
2495 @url{http://www.mingw.org/}.
2498 the MinGW development library of SDL 1.2.x
2499 (@file{SDL-devel-1.2.x-@/mingw32.tar.gz}) from
2500 @url{http://www.libsdl.org}. Unpack it in a temporary place and
2501 edit the @file{sdl-config} script so that it gives the
2502 correct SDL directory when invoked. Set up the @code{PATH} environment
2503 variable so that @file{sdl-config} can be launched by
2504 the QEMU configuration script.
2506 @item Install the MinGW version of zlib and make sure
2507 @file{zlib.h} and @file{libz.dll.a} are in
2508 MingGW's default header and linker search paths.
2511 Configure QEMU for Windows cross compilation:
2513 PATH=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin:$PATH ./configure --cross-prefix='i686-pc-mingw32-'
2515 The example assumes @file{sdl-config} is installed under @file{/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin} and
2516 MinGW cross compilation tools have names like @file{i686-pc-mingw32-gcc} and @file{i686-pc-mingw32-strip}.
2517 We set the @code{PATH} environment variable to ensure the MingW version of @file{sdl-config} is used and
2518 use --cross-prefix to specify the name of the cross compiler.
2519 You can also use --prefix to set the Win32 install path which defaults to @file{c:/Program Files/Qemu}.
2521 Under Fedora Linux, you can run:
2523 yum -y install mingw32-gcc mingw32-SDL mingw32-zlib
2525 to get a suitable cross compilation environment.
2527 @item You can install QEMU in the installation directory by typing
2528 @code{make install}. Don't forget to copy @file{SDL.dll} and @file{zlib1.dll} into the
2529 installation directory.
2533 Wine can be used to launch the resulting qemu.exe compiled for Win32.
2538 The Mac OS X patches are not fully merged in QEMU, so you should look
2539 at the QEMU mailing list archive to have all the necessary
2543 @section Make targets
2549 Make everything which is typically needed.
2558 Remove most files which were built during make.
2560 @item make distclean
2561 Remove everything which was built during make.
2567 Create documentation in dvi, html, info or pdf format.
2572 @item make defconfig
2573 (Re-)create some build configuration files.
2574 User made changes will be overwritten.
2585 QEMU is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.
2587 QEMU is released under the GNU General Public License (TODO: add link).
2588 Parts of QEMU have specific licenses, see file LICENSE.
2590 TODO (refer to file LICENSE, include it, include the GPL?)
2604 @section Concept Index
2605 This is the main index. Should we combine all keywords in one index? TODO
2608 @node Function Index
2609 @section Function Index
2610 This index could be used for command line options and monitor functions.
2613 @node Keystroke Index
2614 @section Keystroke Index
2616 This is a list of all keystrokes which have a special function
2617 in system emulation.
2622 @section Program Index
2625 @node Data Type Index
2626 @section Data Type Index
2628 This index could be used for qdev device names and options.
2632 @node Variable Index
2633 @section Variable Index