QEMU System Emulation User’s Guide

This manual is the overall guide for users using QEMU for full system emulation (as opposed to user-mode emulation). This includes working with hypervisors such as KVM, Xen, Hax or Hypervisor.Framework.

Contents:

• QEMU block drivers reference
  • Disk image file formats
  • Read-only formats
  • Using host drives
  • Virtual FAT disk images
  • NBD access
  • Sheepdog disk images
  • iSCSI LUNs
  • GlusterFS disk images
  • Secure Shell (ssh) disk images
  • NVMe disk images
  • Disk image file locking
• QEMU / KVM CPU model configuration
  • Two ways to configure CPU models with QEMU / KVM
  • Recommendations for KVM CPU model configuration on x86 hosts
  • Default x86 CPU models
  • Other non-recommended x86 CPUs
  • Supported CPU model configurations on MIPS hosts
  • Syntax for configuring CPU models