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<div align="center">
<img src=".github/logo.png" alt="Quickemu" width="256" />
# Quickemu
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**Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines:**
**Made with 💝 for <img src=".github/tux.png" align="top" width="24" alt="Tux (Linux)"/>**
</div>
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# Introduction
**Quickemu** is a wrapper for the excellent [QEMU](https://www.qemu.org/) that
automatically *"does the right thing"* when creating virtual machines. No
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 🤖
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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](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/03-Create-macOS-virtual-machines),
[Windows](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/04-Create-Windows-virtual-machines)**,
most of the BSDs, novel non-Linux operating systems such as FreeDOS,
Haiku, KolibriOS, OpenIndiana, ReactOS, and more.
**Today, Quickemu includes comprehensive support for [macOS](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/03-Create-macOS-virtual-machines),
[Windows](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/04-Create-Windows-virtual-machines)**, most of the BSDs, novel non-Linux operating systems such as FreeDOS, Haiku, KolibriOS, OpenIndiana, ReactOS, and more.
# Features
- **macOS** Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina & Mojave
- **Windows** 10 and 11 including TPM 2.0
- **Windows Server** 2022 2019 2016 2012-r2
- [Ubuntu](https://ubuntu.com/desktop) and all the **[official Ubuntu
flavours](https://ubuntu.com/download/flavours)**
- **Nearly 1000 operating system editions are supported!**
- Full SPICE support including host/guest clipboard sharing
- VirtIO-webdavd file sharing for Linux and Windows guests
- VirtIO-9p file sharing for Linux and macOS guests
- [QEMU Guest Agent
support](https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/GuestAgent); provides access
to a system-level agent via standard QMP commands
- Samba file sharing for Linux, macOS and Windows guests (*if `smbd`
is installed on the host*)
- VirGL acceleration
- USB device pass-through
- Smartcard pass-through
- Automatic SSH port forwarding to guests
- Network port forwarding
- Full duplex audio
- Braille support
- EFI (with or without SecureBoot) and Legacy BIOS boot
- **macOS** Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina & Mojave
- **Windows** 10 and 11 including TPM 2.0
- **Windows Server** 2022 2019 2016 2012-r2
- [Ubuntu](https://ubuntu.com/desktop) and all the **[official Ubuntu
flavours](https://ubuntu.com/download/flavours)**
- **Nearly 1000 operating system editions are supported!**
- Full SPICE support including host/guest clipboard sharing
- VirtIO-webdavd file sharing for Linux and Windows guests
- VirtIO-9p file sharing for Linux and macOS guests
- [QEMU Guest Agent
support](https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/GuestAgent); provides access
to a system-level agent via standard QMP commands
- Samba file sharing for Linux, macOS and Windows guests (*if `smbd`
is installed on the host*)
- VirGL acceleration
- USB device pass-through
- Smartcard pass-through
- Automatic SSH port forwarding to guests
- Network port forwarding
- Full duplex audio
- Braille support
- EFI (with or without SecureBoot) and Legacy BIOS boot
# Quick start
[Once Quickemu is
installed](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/01-Installation),
there are two simple steps to create and run a virtual machine:
[Once Quickemu is installed](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/01-Installation), there are two simple steps to create and run a virtual machine:
- `quickget` automatically downloads the ISO image for the operating
system you want to run and creates a configuration file for the
virtual machine.
- `quickget` automatically downloads the ISO image for the operating system you want to run and creates a configuration file for the virtual machine.
``` shell
quickget nixos unstable
```
- `quickemu` starts the virtual machine using the configuration file
created by `quickget`.
- `quickemu` starts the virtual machine using the configuration file created by `quickget`.
``` shell
quickemu --vm nixos-unstable.conf
```
- Execute `quickget` (with no arguments) to see a list of all the
supported operating systems.
Execute `quickget` (with no arguments) to see a list of all the supported operating systems.
## Demo
<div align="center"><a href="https://asciinema.org/a/658148?autoplay=1" target="_blank"><img src="https://asciinema.org/a/658148.svg" /></a></div>
<div align="center">
<a href="https://asciinema.org/a/658148?autoplay=1" target="_blank"><img src="https://asciinema.org/a/658148.svg" /></a>
</div>
# Documentation
The wiki describes how to get up and running with Quickemu and also
covers more advanced configuration and usage.
The wiki describes how to get up and running with Quickemu and also covers more advanced configuration and usage.
- [**Installation**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/01-Installation)
💾
- [**Create Linux virtual
machines**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/02-Create-Linux-virtual-machines)
🐧
- [**Create macOS virtual
machines**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/03-Create-macOS-virtual-machines)
🍏
- [**Create Windows virtual
machines**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/04-Create-Windows-virtual-machines)
🪟
- [**Advanced quickemu
configuration**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/05-Advanced-quickemu-configuration)
🔧
- [**Advanced quickget
features**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/06-Advanced-quickget-features)
🤓
- [**Alternative
frontends**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/07-Alternative-frontends)
🧑‍💻
- [**References**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/08-References)
📚️
- [**Installation**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/01-Installation) 💾
- [**Create Linux virtual machines**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/02-Create-Linux-virtual-machines) 🐧
- [**Create macOS virtual machines**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/03-Create-macOS-virtual-machines) 🍏
- [**Create Windows virtual machines**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/04-Create-Windows-virtual-machines) 🪟
- [**Advanced quickemu configuration**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/05-Advanced-quickemu-configuration) 🔧
- [**Advanced quickget features**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/06-Advanced-quickget-features) 🤓
- [**Alternative frontends**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/07-Alternative-frontends) 🧑‍💻
- [**References**](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/08-References) 📚️
# Contributing
We welcome contributions to Quickemu.
- Help other Quickemu users by answering questions in the [Quickemu
Discussions](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/discussions)
🛟
- Improve the documentation in [this
README](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/edit/master/README.md)
and the [Quickemu
Wiki](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki) 📖
- File bug reports and feature requests in the [Quickemu
Issues](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/issues) 📁
- Submit [Quickemu Pull
requests](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/pulls) to fix
bugs 🐞 or add new features ✨
- Follow our [guide to adding a new OS to quickget](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/06-Advanced-quickget-features#adding-a-new-os-to-quickget)
- Commit messages must [conform to the Conventional Commits
specification](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/)
- [Sponsor the project](https://github.com/sponsors/flexiondotorg) 💖
- Help other Quickemu users by answering questions in the [Quickemu Discussions](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/discussions) 🛟
- Improve the documentation in [this README](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/edit/master/README.md) and the [Quickemu Wiki](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki) 📖
- File bug reports and feature requests in the [Quickemu Issues](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/issues) 📁
- Submit [Quickemu Pull requests](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/pulls) to fix bugs 🐞 or add new features ✨
- Follow our [guide to adding a new OS to quickget](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/06-Advanced-quickget-features#adding-a-new-os-to-quickget)
- Commit messages must [conform to the Conventional Commits specification](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/).
- [Sponsor the project](https://github.com/sponsors/flexiondotorg) 💖