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14 .. list-table:: Supported Accelerators
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17   * - Accelerator
18     - Host OS
19     - Host Architectures
20   * - KVM
21     - Linux
22     - Arm (64 bit only), MIPS, PPC, RISC-V, s390x, x86
23   * - Xen
24     - Linux (as dom0)
25     - Arm, x86
26   * - Hypervisor Framework (hvf)
27     - MacOS
28     - x86 (64 bit only), Arm (64 bit only)
29   * - Windows Hypervisor Platform (whpx)
30     - Windows
31     - x86
32   * - NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor (nvmm)
33     - NetBSD
34     - x86
35   * - Tiny Code Generator (tcg)
36     - Linux, other POSIX, Windows, MacOS
37     - Arm, x86, Loongarch64, MIPS, PPC, s390x, Sparc64
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47 vhost-user (for VirtIO) or :ref:`Multi-process QEMU`. If the platform
50 :ref:`device-emulation` for more details.
67 Manager <https://virt-manager.org/>`_ using the `libvirt framework
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82 For a non-x86 system where we emulate a broad range of machine types,
85 the :ref:`system-targets-ref` section of the manual.
89 number of projects dedicated to providing a more user friendly
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109 .. parsed-literal::
111    $ |qemu_system| -M help
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118   $ |qemu_system| -device scsi-hd,help
121 that can control the behaviour of the ``scsi-hd`` device.
123 .. list-table:: Options Overview
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127   * - Options
128     -
129   * - Machine
130     - Define the machine type, amount of memory etc
131   * - CPU
132     - Type and number/topology of vCPUs. Most accelerators offer
135   * - Accelerator
136     - This will depend on the hypervisor you run. Note that the
139   * - Devices
140     - Additional devices that are not defined by default with the
142   * - Backends
143     - Backends are how QEMU deals with the guest's data, for example
146   * - Interfaces
147     - How the system is displayed, how it is managed and controlled or
149   * - Boot
150     - How the system boots, via firmware or direct kernel boot.
160  $ qemu-system-aarch64 \
161     -machine type=virt,virtualization=on,pflash0=rom,pflash1=efivars \
162     -m 4096 \
172  -cpu max,pauth-impdef=on \
173  -smp 4 \
174  -accel tcg \
182  -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=unet \
183  -device virtio-scsi-pci \
184  -device scsi-hd,drive=hd \
186 We connect the user-mode networking to our network device. As
187 user-mode networking isn't directly accessible from the outside world
192  -netdev user,id=unet,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 \
199 …-blockdev driver=raw,node-name=hd,file.driver=host_device,file.filename=/dev/lvm-disk/debian-bulls…
208  -serial mon:stdio \
209  -display none \
218  -blockdev node-name=rom,driver=file,filename=(pwd)/pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd,read-only=true \
219  -blockdev node-name=efivars,driver=file,filename=$HOME/images/qemu-arm64-efivars