QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance.

When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. QEMU supports virtualization using multiple hypervisors including KVM, Xen executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, Hypervisor.framework and Hyper-V to virtualize x86, aarch64, PowerPC and S390 guests.

Funds from our sponsors will be used to:

• maintain QEMU's infrastructure (website, wiki, continuous integration)
• facilitate traveling to conferences