QEMU VS xemu

Compare QEMU vs xemu 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)

xemu

Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development) (by xemu-project)
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QEMU xemu
190 131
9,236 2,433
2.4% 7.9%
10.0 7.9
6 days ago 9 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

xemu

Posts with mentions or reviews of xemu. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-03.

What are some alternatives?

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

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

Cxbx-Reloaded - Xbox (Original) Emulator

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/

xenia - Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project

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

pcsx2 - PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator

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

extract-xiso - Xbox ISO Creation/Extraction utility. Imported from SourceForge.

em-dosbox - An Emscripten port of DOSBox

xqemu - Open-source emulator to play original Xbox games on Windows, macOS, and Linux

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

rpcs3 - PS3 emulator/debugger