Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs

Quickemu Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines: Made with 💝 for &

Introduction

Quickemu is a wrapper for the excellent QEMU that automatically "does the right thing" when creating virtual machines. No requirement for exhaustive configuration options. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu takes care of the rest 🤖

quickget automatically downloads the upstream OS and creates the configuration 📀

and creates the configuration 📀 quickemu enumerates your hardware and launches the virtual machine with the optimum configuration best suited to your computer ⚡️

The original objective of the project was to enable quick testing of Linux distributions where the virtual machines and their configuration can be stored anywhere (such as external USB storage or your home directory) and no elevated permissions are required to run the virtual machines.

Today, Quickemu includes comprehensive support for macOS, Windows, most of the BSDs, novel non-Linux operating systems such as FreeDOS, Haiku, KolibriOS, OpenIndiana, ReactOS, and more.

Features

Host support for Linux and macOS

macOS Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina & Mojave

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