qemu

Installation
SKILL.md

QEMU

QEMU is the default public tool for cross-architecture user-mode execution and full-system virtual machines.

Choose mode

Need Mode
Run one Linux/BSD ELF with syscalls forwarded to host qemu-<arch> user-mode
Run a process inside an extracted rootfs qemu-<arch>-static in chroot/proot/container
Boot kernel/initrd/rootfs/disk/firmware qemu-system-<arch>
Debug kernel, bootloader, or process before start -S -gdb ... or user-mode -g
Expose serial/UART -serial stdio, -serial unix:..., -chardev ...
Expose guest services -netdev user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:<host>-:<guest>

User-mode patterns

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GitHub Stars
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First Seen
Sep 5, 2026
qemu — aeondave/malskill