Fast Snapshot Load for QEMU
Contributor: Aadesehveer Singh
QEMU's current snapshot load blocks until all guest RAM is loaded before starting execution. This project implements on-demand snapshot loading using...
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- Total projects
- 45
- Years participating
- 10
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- 2026
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Observability Support for COCONUT-SVSM
Contributor: n-ramacciotti
A guest operating system (OS), running inside a Confidential Virtual Machine (CVM), does not know the state information, such as log data or memory...
Support X86 Process Context Identifiers (PCID) in COCONUT-SVSM
Contributor: Tanish Desai
COCONUT-SVSM is a Secure Virtual Machine Service Module running at a privileged level inside Confidential VMs to provide trusted services (e.g.,...
USB Device Redirection for qemu-rdp
Contributor: uchouT
Implement MS-RDPEUSB protocol (client & server) in IronRDP with libusb backend and qemu-rdp integration. The goal of this project is to add USB...
Fuse-over-io_uring exports
Contributor: Brian Song
This project extends QEMU FUSE export with support for FUSE-over-io_uring, a modern Linux interface that enables asynchronous, high-performance...
Asynchronous request handling for virtiofsd
Contributor: Kaisei Hishida
Virtio-fs is a shared file system that lets virtual machines access a directory tree on the host. Virtiofsd is the user-level host daemon that...
Adding Kani proofs for Virtqueues in Rust-vmm
Contributor: Siddharth Priya
This project aims to formally verify that the Rust vmm (a Rust implementation of the VirtIO specification used in virtualization platforms like QEMU)...
Implementing LASI Network Card and NCR 710 SCSI Controller Device Models
Contributor: Soumyajyotii Ssarkar
This project aims to enhance QEMU's HP PA-RISC emulation by implementing LASI Network Card and NCR 710 SCSI Controller device models. LASI Network...
vhost-user devices in Rust on macOS and *BSD
Contributor: Wenyu Huang
Extend rust-vmm crates (vhost, vhost-user-backend) to enable vhost-user device support on non-Linux POSIX systems (macOS/*BSD). The goal of this...
A sandboxing tool for virtiofsd
Contributor: Christopher Acosta
Virtiofs is a shared file system that lets virtual machines access a directory tree on the host. Unlike existing approaches, it is designed to offer...
Add virtio-net Control Virtqueue state restore support
Contributor: Hawkins Jiawei
Virtio-net device uses Control Virtqueue(CVQ) for changing device parameters. For some devices, such as vDPA, its CVQ is passed from Guest’s driver...
Improving FreeBSD User Emulation of the Armv7 Architecture
Contributor: Kariiem
The proposal is about improving the QEMU emulator for the armv7 architecture on FreeBSD OS, it's goal is to get a simple C++ hello-world program to...
Out-of-process RDP server for QEMU
Contributor: Mihnea Buzatu
QEMU is able to export its display over D-Bus. We can create a server that uses the provided API to export the display over the network. There is...
Rust bindings for libnbd
Contributor: Tage Johansson
Network Block Device (NBD) is a protocol for exporting block devices, either between processes or across the network. Libnbd is a client library for...
Sibling VM communication in vhost-user-vsock
Contributor: techiepriyansh
The vhost-user-vsock Rust application emulates a virtio-vsock device in an external process and provides the hybrid VSOCK interface over AF_UNIX...
NVMe Emulation Performance Optimization
Contributor: Jinhao Fan
QEMU-NVMe is an important tool for developers to experiment with new features in the NVMe stack. However, its emulation performance has failed to...
Extend aarch64 support in rust-vmm/vmm-reference
Contributor: Ramyak mehra
This project aims to extend the support for aarch64 on rust-vmm/vmm-reference. rust-vmm enables the community to build custom VMM solutions. It...
Snapshot/restore for fuzzing with QEMU
Contributor: richyliu
Add a new virtual device to QEMU to interface with a custom snapshot/restore functionality. Modified memory is kept track of by instrumenting the TCG...
VIRTIO_F_IN_ORDER support for virtio devices
Contributor: Zhi Guo
VIRTIO_F_IN_ORDER is a new feature presented in VIRTIO 1.1. As mentioned on the project description page, VIRTIO_F_IN_ORDER is a feature that devices...
vhost-user-scsi device in Rust
Contributor: Gaelan Steele
QEMU supports exposing block devices to the guest OS over the virtio-scsi protocol. Currently, this is implemented using C code running in the main...
Interactive, asynchronous QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) text user interface (TUI)
Contributor: Niteesh Babu G S
The aim of the project is to build a Text User Interface(TUI) for issuing and receiving QEMU Monitor Protocol (QMP) commands from a running QEMU...
Development of a vhost-user-vsock application and its integration with kata contianers
Contributor: Harshavardhan Unnibhavi
This project aims to realize a vhost-user-vsock application that will leverage the vhost-user protocol to emulate a virtio-vsock device in an...
TCG Plugin: Cache Modelling
Contributor: Mahmoud Mandour
Since cache performance is one of the essential metrics that may bottle-neck the overall performance of the system, monitoring it and identifying...
Mocking framework for virtio queues
Contributor: Bogdan Grigoruță
This project revolves around designing a reusable framework for mocking the driver side of a VirtQueue operation. It would allow rust-vmm crates and...
Complete AMD virtualization emulation
Contributor: Lara Lazier
QEMU already includes a basic implementation of the virtualization extensions that are found in AMD processors. This implementation, however, is not...
Extend linux-user syscalls and ioctls
Contributor: Filip Božuta
Very often, the QEMU emulator is used to emulate user level processes that are compiled for a different architecture set than the "host" machine on...
TCG Continuous Benchmarking
Contributor: Ahmed Karaman
QEMU's emulator allows running operating systems and binaries compiled against one architecture (e.g. Linux ARM) on a host with a different...
Virtual FIDO/U2F security key on Qemu
Contributor: César Belley
U2F is an open authentication standard used worldwide. It enables relying parties exposed to the internet to offer a strong second factor option for...
Fuzzing QEMU's implementation of VirtIO devices
Contributor: Alexander Oleinik
Integrate QEMU with the OSS-Fuzz continuous fuzzing service. Implement functionality to fuzz QEMU’s devices adhering to the VirtIO standard. Fuzzing...
Improving Measurement of Tiny Code Generation Quality
Contributor: Vanderson M. do Rosario
One of the most important steps in tuning an emulator performance is to identify which are the hot regions and to measure their translation quality....
Support for AVX within TCG
Contributor: Jan Bobek
QEMU's TCG just-in-time compiler translates target CPU instructions into host CPU instructions so that programs written for other CPU architectures...
micro:bit machine type and cortex-m0 support
Contributor: Steffen Görtz
The micro:bit is a small computer for educational use that is also suitable for embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) projects. The micro:bit...
Qtest Driver Framework
Contributor: Emanuele Esposito
Testing is very important in software development, it allows developers to find bugs and evaluate software quality. For instance, regression testing...
Vulkan-ize VirGL
Contributor: Nathan Gauër
VirGL provides an OpenGL path well supported on Linux guests. On the host, QEMU offers several console back-ends, from EGL to SDL. Adding a Vulkan...
Patchew REST API improvements.
Contributor: shubham.jain
Patchew is an open source CI project to automate testing of patches submitted as emails on mailing lists. Currently Patchew has a simple API, but it...
Hypervisor.framework Support for QEMU
Contributor: Sergio Gómez Del Real
The idea of the project is to add support for macOS’s native hypervisor through the Hypervisor.framework API. This API exposes to user applications...
Implementing I/O throttling and write notifiers into filter Block Drivers
Contributor: Manos Pitsidianakis
I/O throttling is currently hard-coded in QEMU. A request is checked for throttling directly in block-backend.c instead of having a filter driver...
Generic PCIE-PCI bridge
Contributor: Aleksandr Bezzubikov
Nowadays QEMU doesn't have any PCIE-PCI bridge except DMI-PCI i82801b11 bridge, but as DMI is a proprietary Intel bus, it can be used only on x86...
Virgl Windows driver
Contributor: Nathan Gauër
3D acceleration is non-existent on Windows guests. The goal for this project is to bring a support for OpenGL. For the host part, we will use Virgl,...
qemu-img fuzzing and subcommand "dd"
Contributor: Reda
This proposal aims primarily to fuzz test qemu-img from QEMU project in order to discover the potential security bugs and write bug fixes for them....
AMD IOMMU interrupt remapping and other improvements
Contributor: asla
This project aims to get the current AMD IOMMU patches merged into Qemu as well as introduce interrupt remapping support to the current AMD IOMMU...
Postcopy migration: Recovery from a broken network connection
Contributor: haris3301
Live Migration is a process of moving a running virtual machine from one physical system to another. There are usually two ways, precopy and...
AF_VSOCK packet capture in Linux and Wireshark
Contributor: GerardGarcia
Zero-configuration communication between the QEMU hypervisor and its guests can be achieved using the virtio-serial device. Virtio-serial has several...
MTTCG Memory Consistency
Contributor: Pranith Kumar
QEMU uses a single-threaded tiny code generator (TCG) which translates instructions of the guest ISA to instructions of the host ISA. These...
Implementing one more absolute coordinates device for QEMU – a serial tablet with behaviour like usb-tablet we use to get mouse integration
Contributor: avg206
The implementing serial tablet would allow to have mouse integration for vintage operating systems. This feature is absent in other virtualisation...