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Qemu projects on GitHub

Machine emulators and virtualizers for running guest operating systems.

As of , the most-starred Qemu projects on GitHub are UTM (35.9K stars), serenity (33.9K stars) and OSX-KVM (23.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 20 Qemu repositories with 222.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Husk, with +93 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+93

Husk

Leviidev/Husk · ★ 2.1K

Husk is an Android app launcher for iPhone: drop in an APK, tap it, and the Android app opens full-screen, running either natively or through emulation.

+20

oss-scanner

anthropics/oss-scanner · ★ 1K

OSS Scanner is a service run by Anthropic that scans enrolled open-source repositories for security vulnerabilities, building each project in an isolated VM and emailing the maintainer a reproducer plus a proposed patch for anything it finds.

+17

UTM

utmapp/UTM · ★ 35.9K

UTM is a full system emulator and virtual machine host for iOS and macOS, built on QEMU, that lets you run Windows, Linux, and other operating systems directly on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad.

+14

quickemu

quickemu-project/quickemu · ★ 16.5K

Quickemu is a command-line wrapper around QEMU that creates and runs optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines. You pick the OS; quickget downloads it and quickemu handles the configuration and launch.

The all-time top

20 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · utmapp/UTM

    UTM

    UTM is a full system emulator and virtual machine host for iOS and macOS, built on QEMU, that lets you run Windows, Linux, and other operating systems directly on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad.

    35.9K
  2. #2 · SerenityOS/serenity

    serenity

    SerenityOS is a graphical Unix-like operating system for 64-bit x86, Arm, and RISC-V computers, built entirely from scratch.

    33.9K
  3. #3 · kholia/OSX-KVM

    OSX-KVM

    Scripts and OpenCore configuration for running macOS as a virtual machine under QEMU/KVM on a Linux host, supporting recent macOS versions such as Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma.

    23.7K
  1. 4

    lima

    22.1Klima-vm/lima · Go

    Lima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding, similar to WSL2. It was originally created to bring containerd and nerdctl to Mac users but is not limited to containers.

  2. 5

    blog_os

    17.8Kphil-opp/blog_os · HTML

    Source code for the 'Writing an OS in Rust' blog series at os.phil-opp.com - step-by-step posts that build a small x86-64 operating system kernel in Rust.

  3. 6

    quickemu

    16.5Kquickemu-project/quickemu · Shell

    Quickemu is a command-line wrapper around QEMU that creates and runs optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines. You pick the OS; quickget downloads it and quickemu handles the configuration and launch.

  4. 7

    winapps

    16.1Kwinapps-org/winapps · Shell

    WinApps runs Windows applications like Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud on GNU/Linux with GNOME, KDE Plasma or XFCE, presenting them as if they were native apps, complete with shortcuts in your application menu.

  5. 8

    macOS-Simple-KVM

    13.9Kfoxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM · Shell

    A set of scripts and tools for setting up a macOS virtual machine in QEMU, accelerated by KVM, so you can run macOS on a Linux host.

  6. 9

    qemu

    13.9Kqemu/qemu · C

    QEMU is a generic and open source machine and userspace emulator and virtualizer — software that lets one computer run systems and programs built for a completely different one.

  7. 10

    os01

    13.7Ktuhdo/os01 · TeX

    It's a free book, 'Operating Systems: From 0 to 1', that walks a self-learner through the foundational knowledge needed to write an operating system from scratch.

  8. 11

    Podroid

    3.5KExTV/Podroid · Kotlin

    Podroid is a rootless Android app that boots a real Alpine Linux virtual machine on your phone, letting you run Linux containers (Podman, Docker, LXC) and even full GUI desktop apps.

  9. 12

    vinix

    2.6Kvlang/vinix · V

    Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system in the V programming language — a hobby OS project that also feeds improvements back into the V compiler.

  10. 13

    try-omarchy

    2.6Komacom/try-omarchy · Swift

    Try Omarchy lets you run the Omarchy Arch Linux desktop as a native, hardware-accelerated macOS app on Apple Silicon, with no manual VM setup required.

  11. 14

    Husk

    2.1KLeviidev/Husk · Java

    Husk is an Android app launcher for iPhone: drop in an APK, tap it, and the Android app opens full-screen, running either natively or through emulation.

  12. 15

    darwin-vm

    1.2Kjprx/darwin-vm · Shell

    darwin-vm boots iOS or macOS (Darwin) inside QEMU straight to a root shell, so you can debug the kernel, edit the filesystem, and run your own custom programs. It supports emulating iPhone 12-17 (A14-A19) and M1-M5 Macs.

  13. 16

    motor-os

    1.1Kmoturus/motor-os · Rust

    Motor OS is a simple, fast, and secure operating system built for the cloud. It targets virtualized workloads — web serving, serverless computing, and edge caching — and is written entirely in Rust, kernel to shell.

  14. 17

    oss-scanner

    1Kanthropics/oss-scanner · Dockerfile

    OSS Scanner is a service run by Anthropic that scans enrolled open-source repositories for security vulnerabilities, building each project in an isolated VM and emailing the maintainer a reproducer plus a proposed patch for anything it finds.

  15. 18

    try-omarchy-windows

    633omacom/try-omarchy-windows · Go

    Try Omarchy for Windows runs the full Omarchy Linux desktop (Arch-based, Hyprland) inside a window on Windows 10 or 11, using QEMU on Windows' built-in hypervisor with GPU-accelerated rendering.

  16. 19

    omarchy-lock-explorer

    208SirJul1337/omarchy-lock-explorer · QML

    Lock Screen Explorer is an Omarchy plugin that adds dozens of ready-made lock screen designs (Greeting Card, Terminal, Weather, Music, System, Rain, and more) plus a picker UI to preview, switch, and customize them, while keeping all the normal unlock methods working.

  17. 20

    lytlnyblOS

    116red-mutt/lytlnyblOS · C

    lytlnyblOS ('little nibble OS') is a small 32-bit operating system built from scratch to teach beginners OS development practically. You write every line of it yourself while following the companion book.

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