quickemu
Quickemu simplifies creating and running QEMU virtual machines: quickget downloads an operating system image and creates its configuration, then quickemu launches it with settings suited to the host.
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Overview
Quickemu is a Shell-based wrapper for QEMU that makes it simpler to create and run virtual machines without manually tuning extensive settings. Choose an operating system with quickget to download its upstream image and generate a VM configuration, then start it with quickemu, which selects settings suited to the host hardware. It supports Linux and macOS hosts and a broad range of guest systems, with options such as SPICE, file sharing, device passthrough, and network forwarding.
Key features
- quickget downloads upstream OS images and generates VM configuration.
- quickemu detects host hardware and selects settings to launch virtual machines.
- Supports Linux and macOS hosts, with Linux, Windows, macOS, BSD, and other guest systems.
- Provides SPICE, guest file sharing, USB and smartcard passthrough, and network and SSH port forwarding.
Best for
Useful for people who want to create virtual machines for testing or running different operating systems without manually configuring QEMU. Choose it when you want a simple download, configure, and launch workflow on Linux or macOS.
- Upstream
- quickemu-project/quickemu
- Fork on GitHub
- Guo-astro/quickemu
- Upstream stars
- 17k
- Category
- Developer tools and infrastructure
- Language
- Shell
- License
- MIT
- Forked
- 2026-10-10
- Sync status
- In syncLast synced 2026-11-08
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