QEMU VS TermuxArch

Compare QEMU vs TermuxArch and see what are their differences.

QEMU

Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. (by qemu)

TermuxArch

Experience the pleasure of the Linux command prompt in Android, Chromebook, Fire OS and Windows on smartphone, smartTV, tablet and wearable https://termuxarch.github.io/TermuxArch/ (by TermuxArch)
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QEMU TermuxArch
190 22
9,236 872
2.4% 1.7%
10.0 0.0
7 days ago 10 months ago
C Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

QEMU

Posts with mentions or reviews of QEMU. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-03.
  • QEMU Version 9.0.0 Released
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Apr 2024
    My most-wanted QEMU feature: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/a2260983c6553

    Using `gic-version=3` on macOS you can now use more than 8 cores on ARM chips.

  • Autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2024
    A better solution is just to write a plain ass shell script that tests if various C snippets compile.

    https://github.com/oilshell/oil/blob/master/configure

    https://github.com/oilshell/oil/blob/master/build/detect-pwe...

    Not an unholy mix of m4, shell, and C, all in the same file.

    ---

    These are the same style as a the configure scripts that Fabrice Bellard wrote for tcc and QEMU.

    They are plain ass shell scripts, because he actually understands the code he writes.

    https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/configure

    https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc/blob/mob/configure

    OCaml’s configure script is also “normal”.

    You don’t have to copy and paste thousands of lines of GNU stuff that you don’t understand.

    (copy of lobste.rs comment)

  • WASM Instructions
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2024
    Related:

    A fast Pascal (Delphi) WebAssembly interpreter:

    https://github.com/marat1961/wasm

    WASM-4:

    https://github.com/aduros/wasm4

    Curated list of awesome things regarding WebAssembly (wasm) ecosystem:

    https://github.com/mbasso/awesome-wasm

    Also, it would be nice if there was a WASM (soft) CPU for QEMU, which (if it existed!) would go here:

    https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/master/target

  • Revng translates (i386, x86-64, MIPS, ARM, AArch64, s390x) binaries to LLVM IR
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2024
    > architectural registers are always updated

    In tiny code, the guest registers (global TCG variables) are stored in the host's registers until you either call an helper which can access the CPU state or you return (`git grep la_global_sync`). This is the reason why QEMU is not so terribly slow.

    But after a check, this also happens when you access the guest memory address space! https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/include/tcg/tcg-opc... (TCG_OPF_SIDE_EFFECTS is what matters)

    But still, in the end, it's the same problem. What QEMU does, can be done in LLVM too. You could probably be more efficient in LLVM by using the exception handling mechanism (invoke and friends) to only serialize back to memory when there's an actual exception, at the cost of higher register pressure. More or less what we do here: https://rev.ng/downloads/bar-2019-paper.pdf

  • State of x86-64 emulation of non-MacOS binaries
    1 project | /r/MacOS | 7 Dec 2023
    Um, in case you don't know, UTM (based on QEMU) is out for quite a while.
  • Multipass: Ubuntu Virtual Machines Made Easy
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 Nov 2023
    Some of these tools include Oracle VM VirtualBox (that I've used since before the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle), VMWare Workstation Player, and QEMU, but last year, I found out about Multipass.
  • Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2023
    For C/C++ projects that use meson as the build system, there is an excellent way to manage dependencies:

    https://mesonbuild.com/Wrapdb-projects.html

    https://mesonbuild.com/Wrap-dependency-system-manual.html

    meson will download and build the libraries automatically and give you a variable which you pass as a regular dependency into the built target:

    https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/005ad32358f12fe9313a4a0191...

    https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/tree/main/subprojects

    https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/37457412b3212463c5...

    Or, if you're using proper operating systems, they're managed by the usual package manager, just like everything else.

  • Top 6 Virtual Machine Software in 2023
    1 project | dev.to | 10 Aug 2023
    For all the users of the Linux platform, QEMU is the VM that you should go for. This software comes without any price tag and works as an emulator of various machines with utmost ease and completion; the software uses dynamic translations to emulate hardware peripherals and enhances its overall performance. If you are using QEMU as a virtualizer, then it will function exactly like the host system (provided you have the right set of hardware).
  • Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2023
  • UTM for Developers
    2 projects | dev.to | 17 Jul 2023
    In this tutorial, we set up macOS and Windows virtual machines on UTM, a macOS application that provides a GUI wrapper for QEMU, a powerful open-source emulator and virtualizer. UTM allows you to easily manage and run virtual machines without memorizing complex commands. It also has special handling for macOS, making it simpler to install compared to other virtual machine software.

TermuxArch

Posts with mentions or reviews of TermuxArch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-23.
  • Linux on smartphones.
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 31 Jul 2022
    Termux includes a Terminal, its own Linux distro, and an apt-like package repo and manager. However, I prefer to install another distro on top of it, like Arch.
  • Testing for aur helper installers on Android
    2 projects | /r/archlinux | 23 Mar 2022
    They are made when Arch Linux is installed with TermuxArch and also with the bloom skeleton option, setupTermuxArch bl.
    1 project | /r/archlinux | 23 Mar 2022
    TermuxArch publishes aur helper installers that work on Android smartphones:
  • QEMU with KVM enable
    2 projects | /r/termux | 19 Mar 2022
    Would you like to try to setup KVM? If so please open an issue here. If we are successfull r/WMCBTech30 will probably state our work as find it irrelevant and unhelpful as they already have.
  • arch linux x86_64 on termux
    1 project | /r/termux | 19 Mar 2022
    setupTermuxArch qemu installs alternate architectures with two taps. The command csystemctl installs a systemd replacement that appears to work as expected.
  • Arch (BTW) on my Android phone
    2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 17 Mar 2022
    This was achieved through Termux and the TermuxArch script
  • QEMU on termux can run OS?
    1 project | /r/termux | 6 Mar 2022
    references: a) https://github.com/TermuxArch/TermuxArch/issues/25 b) https://github.com/TermuxArch/TermuxArch/issues?q=is%3Aissue+qemu
  • New commands added for Termux users.
    1 project | /r/termux | 9 Feb 2022
    This commit added a handfull of aur builders two days ago that are now easily accessable! makeauraclegit makeaurpopularpackages makeaurbauerbill makeaurpuyo makeaurfakeroottcp makeaurrepoctl makeaurghcuphs makeaurrepofish makeaurhelpers makeaurrustup makeaurpacaur makeaurshellcheckbin makeaurpackagequery makeaurtllocalmgr makeaurpakku makeaurtrizen makeaurparu makeaurutils makeaurpbget makeauryaah makeaurpikaur makeauryay makeaurpikaur-git makeauryayim makeaurpkgbuilder
  • [Package Request]: The GHCup-hs Haskell installer
    4 projects | /r/termux | 9 Feb 2022
    GHCup-hs works flawlessly in TermuxArch; THANK YOU! Did you know that Haskell can play music from code? Tap here to see video search results.
  • [Package]: The GHCup-hs Haskell installer #8758
    3 projects | /r/termux | 25 Jan 2022
    GHCup-hs works flawlessly in https://github.com/TermuxArch/TermuxArch THANK YOU TERMUX!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing QEMU and TermuxArch you can also consider the following projects:

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

manjaro-fs-arm64 - Manjaro rootfs with xfce4 and vncserver preinstalled. Just setup username, password and vnc password. Also one more edition with latest Anki preinstalled.

Unicorn Engine - Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, PowerPC, RiscV, S390x, TriCore, X86)

termux-arch - You can use setupTermuxArch.sh 📲 to install Arch Linux in Termux on Android and Chrome. This setup script will attempt to set Arch Linux up in your Termux environment.

Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.

xemu - Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)

termux-archlinux - You can use setupTermuxArch.bash 📲 to install Arch Linux in Termux on Amazon, Android, Chromebook and Windows. https://sdrausty.github.io/termux-archlinux/

em-dosbox - An Emscripten port of DOSBox

junest - The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs, without root privileges, on top of any other Linux distro.

virt-manager - Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt

kalimux - Install And Use Kali Linux With Gui In Termux