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QEMU

Open source machine emulator and virtualizer

The QEMU Project includes the QEMU open source machine emulator and virtualizer and also acts as an umbrella organization for the KVM Linux kernel module and rust-vmm community. When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run operating systems and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. QEMU supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, QEMU can virtualize x86, ARM, server and embedded PowerPC, and S390 guests.

  • c
  • python
  • linux
  • rust
  • systems programming
  • kernel
  • compiler
  • emulator
  • hypervisor

Project ideas

7 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 7 that state a difficulty: 5 medium, 2 hard. Sizes: 1 medium, 6 large. 12 mentors named.

  1. Fast Snapshot Load large hard
  2. USB Device Redirection for qemu-rdp large hard
  3. vhost-user memory isolation large medium
  4. virtio-rtc vhost-user device medium medium
  5. Support X86 Process Context Identifiers (PCID) in COCONUT-SVSM large medium
  6. Observability Support for COCONUT-SVSM large medium
  7. SCSI TAPE device emulation large medium

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2016, 10 years. Projects per year: '16: 6, '17: 4, '18: 4, '19: 3, '20: 3, '21: 6, '22: 4, '23: 6, '25: 5, '26: 4.

On GitHub

No GitHub organization found in its official listing.

Links and channels

go deeper in your terminal
git-into-gsoc org "QEMU" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "QEMU"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "QEMU"
or ask your assistant:
"Which QEMU repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.