QEMU is packaged by most Linux distributions:

QEMU requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later, but it is recommended to use Mac OS X 10.7 or later.

QEMU can be installed from MacPorts :

QEMU can be installed from Homebrew :

Stefan Weil provides binaries and installers for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.

Source code

Grab the source code for the latest releases and compile it yourself! Detailed compilation instructions can be found in the wiki for Linux, Win32 and macOS.

or stay on the bleeding edge with the git repository!

Build instructions

To download and build QEMU 5.1.0:

wget https://download.qemu.org/qemu-5.1.0.tar.xz tar xvJf qemu-5.1.0.tar.xz cd qemu-5.1.0 ./configure make

To download and build QEMU from git:

git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git cd qemu git submodule init git submodule update --recursive ./configure make

The latest development happens on the master branch. The stable trees are located in branches named stable-X.YY branch, where X.YY is the release version.