qemu-riscv

Binary build of QEMU configured for RISC-V targets. This build provides portable QEMU binaries for RISC-V system and user-mode emulation.

Supported Targets

This build includes the following QEMU targets:

• riscv32-softmmu - RISC-V 32-bit system emulation
• riscv64-softmmu - RISC-V 64-bit system emulation
• riscv32-linux-user - RISC-V 32-bit Linux user-mode emulation
• riscv64-linux-user - RISC-V 64-bit Linux user-mode emulation

Release Scheme

qemu-riscv provides weekly builds of QEMU top-of-trunk. These releases are generally marked as pre-release.

qemu-riscv also provides tagged builds of QEMU releases.

The latest most-stable build is tagged 'latest'.

Supported Platforms

Binary releases are provided for:

• Linux x86_64 (manylinux2014, manylinux_2_28, manylinux_2_34)
• Linux aarch64 (manylinux_2_28, manylinux_2_34)
• macOS arm64 (Apple Silicon)

Usage

Download the appropriate tarball for your platform from the releases page, extract it, and add the bin directory to your PATH:

tar xzf qemu-riscv-<platform>-<version>.tar.gz
export PATH=$(pwd)/qemu-riscv/bin:$PATH

Then you can use the QEMU RISC-V binaries:

qemu-system-riscv64 --version
qemu-riscv64 --version

Building Locally

You can build locally using CMake:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Or use the build script directly:

export qemu_latest_rls=master  # or a specific tag like v9.2.0
./scripts/build.sh