docs/system/device-emulation.rst

6 QEMU supports the emulation of a large number of devices from
7 peripherals such network cards and USB devices to integrated systems
10 used to describes devices within QEMU.
20 system is expecting to see. All devices can be specified with the
22 options ``--device help`` will list all devices it is aware of. Using
32 Most devices will exist on a BUS of some sort. Depending on the
35 can be inferred, for example PCI devices are generally automatically
41 Some devices, for example a PCI SCSI host controller, will add an
42 additional buses to the system that other devices can be attached to.
43 A hypothetical chain of devices might look like:
59 devices will be backed by a ``--chardev`` which can redirect the data
60 to a file or socket or some other system. Storage devices are handled
79 Emulated Devices
85    devices/can.rst
86    devices/ccid.rst
87    devices/cxl.rst
88    devices/ivshmem.rst
89    devices/keyboard.rst
90    devices/net.rst
91    devices/nvme.rst
92    devices/usb.rst
93    devices/vhost-user.rst
94    devices/virtio-gpu.rst
95    devices/virtio-pmem.rst
96    devices/virtio-snd.rst
97    devices/vhost-user-input.rst
98    devices/vhost-user-rng.rst
99    devices/canokey.rst
100    devices/usb-u2f.rst
101    devices/igb.rst