What is AQEMU?
AQEMU is an open-source machine emulator and virtualizer. It can emulate a variety of guest hardware platforms and allows you to run operating systems and software within virtual machines on your existing host operating system.
Some key features of AQEMU include:
- Processor emulation including x86, ARM, SPARC and PowerPC architectures
- Virtualized hardware like graphics cards, network cards, hard drives, USB devices etc.
- Support for virtual machine acceleration using KVM, HAXM, WHPX or Hyper-V on supported host systems
- Flexible configuration of virtual hardware resources like CPU cores, RAM, storage etc.
- Command line and graphical user interfaces to manage virtual machines
- Support for a wide variety of guest operating systems including Linux, Windows and BSD platforms
- Active open source development community
AQEMU requires an existing host operating system like Linux, Windows or macOS to install and run on. It launches guest VMs as processes within the host OS and leverages virtualization extensions on modern hardware for efficiency. The free and open source nature makes it popular for server virtualization, platform testing, malware analysis and more.
VirtualBox, Windows Sandbox, Parallels Desktop, VMware Workstation Player, virt-manager, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Multipass, Boxes, JavaQemu, QtEmu, Virtual PC are some alternatives to AQEMU.