QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports ARM, CRIS, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, and SH4 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.

This package provides the full system emulation binaries to emulate various other hardware which did not made into separate packages. Emulators for the following architectures are provided: alpha avr cris hppa m68k microblaze microblazeel nios2 or1k riscv32 riscv64 rx sh4 sh4eb tricore xtensa xtensaeb.

In system emulation mode QEMU emulates a full system, including a processor and various peripherals. It enables easier testing and debugging of system code. It can also be used to provide virtual hosting of several virtual machines on a single server.