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UTMQEMU
Freemium

Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. A paid Mac App Store listing exists…

 Free

Free and open source, with no paid edition.

macOS, iOS Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Hardware-accelerated virtualisation on macOS through Hypervisor.framework
  • Full emulation of more than thirty architectures when you need a different one
  • Emulates whole machines across processor architectures, not just same-architecture VMs
  • Near native performance when paired with KVM or Xen
  • Emulating a different architecture is slow
  • The iOS version needs a jailbreak or a workaround for full speed
  • Raw QEMU is a command line tool with a large and unfriendly option surface
  • Cross-architecture emulation is far slower than virtualisation on matching hardware
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: Apache-2.0 License: GPL-2.0
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 21, 2026

Checked September 20, 2026

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