Same GPLv2 soul. New maintainers. Actually shipping.
AQEMU started with Andrey Rijov, carried on under the community Qt5 era led by Tobias Gläßer, then went quiet. People still land on that old tree looking for a working QEMU GUI.
Chronic Engineering picked it back up. This isn't a polish pass — it's roughly +30,000 lines / −2,000 lines across ~120 files of real product work: an embedded display layer, a bundled emulator, and wizards for the guests that actually break in a modern QEMU GUI.
We keep the original authors credited. We didn't inherit their old donation pages or crowdfunding — this is a clean, active fork with Issues and Discussions open.
What's new vs the old AQEMU
The last widely known tree assumed you already had QEMU installed and a VNC window you'd have to go hunt for. This one doesn't.
Built-in QEMU 11.0.2
The Windows portable build ships qemu-system-x86_64, i386, aarch64, qemu-img and firmware right next to aqemu.exe. Unzip and run — or point it at a custom folder.
Embedded SPICE sessions
QEMU runs headless behind spice-client-glib, in-window, with a real session toolbar: media, USB hotplug, networking, power. No separate display to lose behind other apps.
Guest wizards that match reality
Win11 ARM over TCG, forced pure TCG for pre-ME Windows, OpenCore for Intel macOS, mac99 for classic PowerPC, SLOF-aware AIX defaults — tuned to what actually boots.
Deeper QEMU, still one GUI
NUMA, TPM, watchdog, SMBIOS, fw_cfg, audiodev, a blockdev graph editor, and migrate progress over QMP — advanced options without dropping to a shell.
Windows and Pi hosts, matched
WHPX where the guest arch allows it, WSL/KVM for heavy guests when /dev/kvm is there, and dedicated Raspberry Pi 5 build flags for the aarch64-native path.
Still AQEMU — just alive
Same "GUI over QEMU" mission, same credited lineage, new maintainers who ship release zips, answer issues, and mean to keep doing both.
If QEMU can boot it, the wizard knows about it
Not every guest gets the same level of attention yet — beta testing is how the list below moves from left to right.
Windows & DOS
- Windows 11 ARM
- Windows 98 / ME
- Windows XP
- Windows 95
- Windows Vista · 7 · 8 · 10
- Windows Server 2000 – 2025
- MS-DOS · FreeDOS · DR-DOS · PC DOS
Apple
- Intel macOS (OpenCore)
- Classic Mac OS (PPC)
- Mac OS X — Intel & PPC
- NeXTSTEP · OPENSTEP
- Darwin
Unix & enterprise
- Solaris 11.4 · Solaris SPARC
- AIX / pseries
- ReactOS · OS/2
- SCO OpenServer · UnixWare
- IRIX · illumos · OpenSolaris
- QNX
Linux & BSD
- Ubuntu · Fedora · Debian-family
- FreeBSD · NetBSD · OpenBSD
- Arch · NixOS · Gentoo
- Kali · Pop!_OS · Rocky / RHEL
- Slackware · Void · Tiny Core
Retro & niche
- TempleOS · KolibriOS · MenuetOS
- SerenityOS · Redox OS · Haiku
- AmigaOS · AmigaOne · BeOS
- 9front · Plan 9
- MorphOS · RISC OS
Other
- ChromeOS · ChromeOS Flex
- Fuchsia · Android
- SteamOS
- ARM dev boards — Versatile, Integrator/CP, virt
- Arduino-class boards
One window. Every control you actually reach for.
Embedded SPICE display, a session toolbar, and a fullscreen mode that auto-hides its own chrome the way a video player does — hover the top edge to bring it back.
Official Microsoft Store Release & Open Source Access
AQEMU is open-source under GPLv2. You can build the application directly from source on GitHub, or purchase the official release on the Microsoft Store for single-click installation and automatic updates.
Store App & Auto-Updates
- Official Windows installation with bundled QEMU 11.0.2
- Automatic background updates directly via Windows
- Supports ongoing project development & maintenance
- Single-click setup — no manual configuration required
Open Source (GPLv2)
- Complete C++ source code available on GitHub
- Build natively on Linux, Raspberry Pi 5, or Windows
- Fully inspectable, transparent, open-source codebase
- Issue tracker for bug reports and technical support
Encounter an issue or need help with a guest?
Our team actively monitors technical reports on GitHub. If you encounter any bugs, wizard configuration discrepancies, or unexpected behavior with a specific guest operating system, open an issue on GitHub and our developers will address and fix it as quickly as possible.
Open an Issue on GitHub