xPack xPack QEMU Arm v9.2.4-1 released

October 9, 2025 · 12 min read

Version 9.2.4-1.1 is a new release; it follows the upstream QEMU release.

The xPack QEMU Arm is a standalone cross-platform binary distribution of QEMU, with several extensions for Arm Cortex-M devices.

There are separate binaries for Windows (x64), macOS (x64 and arm64) and GNU/Linux (x64 and arm64).

Raspberry Pi

The main targets for the GNU/Linux Arm binaries are the Raspberry Pi class devices (aarch64 only; armv6 and armv7l are no longer supported).

Download

The binary files are available from GitHub Releases.

Prerequisites

x64 Windows: Windows 7 with the Universal C Runtime (UCRT), Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
x64 macOS: 11.0 or later
arm64 macOS: 11.0 or later
x64 GNU/Linux: any system with GLIBC 2.28 or higher (like Ubuntu 20 or later, Debian 10 or later, RedHat 8 or later, Fedora 29 or later, etc)
arm64 GNU/Linux: any system with GLIBC 2.28 or higher (like Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu 20 or later, Debian 10 or later, RedHat 8 or later, Fedora 29 or later, etc)

Install

The easiest way to install this specific version, is by using xpm:

xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/qemu-arm@9.2.4-1.1 -verbose

Comprehensive instructions for installing xPack xPack QEMU Arm on different platforms can be found in the Install Guide.

Compliance

The xPack QEMU Arm currently is based on the official QEMU, with some changes.

There are two binaries:

qemu-system-arm and qemu-system-aarch64, based on QEMU version 9.2.4, from 28 May 2025

Changes

Compared to the upstream qemu-system-arm and qemu-system-aarch64, there are no major changes.

The supported boards and CPUs are:

$ .../qemu-system-arm -machine help
Supported machines are:
ast1030-evb          Aspeed AST1030 MiniBMC (Cortex-M4)
ast2500-evb          Aspeed AST2500 EVB (ARM1176)
ast2600-evb          Aspeed AST2600 EVB (Cortex-A7)
b-l475e-iot01a       B-L475E-IOT01A Discovery Kit (Cortex-M4)
bletchley-bmc        Facebook Bletchley BMC (Cortex-A7)
bpim2u               Bananapi M2U (Cortex-A7)
canon-a1100          Canon PowerShot A1100 IS (ARM946)
collie               Sharp SL-5500 (Collie) PDA (SA-1110)
cubieboard           cubietech cubieboard (Cortex-A8)
emcraft-sf2          SmartFusion2 SOM kit from Emcraft (M2S010)
fby35-bmc            Facebook fby35 BMC (Cortex-A7)
fby35                Meta Platforms fby35
fp5280g2-bmc         Inspur FP5280G2 BMC (ARM1176)
fuji-bmc             Facebook Fuji BMC (Cortex-A7)
g220a-bmc            Bytedance G220A BMC (ARM1176)
highbank             Calxeda Highbank (ECX-1000)
imx25-pdk            ARM i.MX25 PDK board (ARM926)
integratorcp         ARM Integrator/CP (ARM926EJ-S)
kudo-bmc             Kudo BMC (Cortex-A9)
kzm                  ARM KZM Emulation Baseboard (ARM1136)
lm3s6965evb          Stellaris LM3S6965EVB (Cortex-M3)
lm3s811evb           Stellaris LM3S811EVB (Cortex-M3)
mcimx6ul-evk         Freescale i.MX6UL Evaluation Kit (Cortex-A7)
mcimx7d-sabre        Freescale i.MX7 DUAL SABRE (Cortex-A7)
microbit             BBC micro:bit (Cortex-M0)
midway               Calxeda Midway (ECX-2000)
mori-bmc             Mori BMC (Cortex-A9)
mps2-an385           ARM MPS2 with AN385 FPGA image for Cortex-M3
mps2-an386           ARM MPS2 with AN386 FPGA image for Cortex-M4
mps2-an500           ARM MPS2 with AN500 FPGA image for Cortex-M7
mps2-an505           ARM MPS2 with AN505 FPGA image for Cortex-M33
mps2-an511           ARM MPS2 with AN511 DesignStart FPGA image for Cortex-M3
mps2-an521           ARM MPS2 with AN521 FPGA image for dual Cortex-M33
mps3-an524           ARM MPS3 with AN524 FPGA image for dual Cortex-M33
mps3-an536           ARM MPS3 with AN536 FPGA image for Cortex-R52
mps3-an547           ARM MPS3 with AN547 FPGA image for Cortex-M55
musca-a              ARM Musca-A board (dual Cortex-M33)
musca-b1             ARM Musca-B1 board (dual Cortex-M33)
musicpal             Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal (ARM926EJ-S)
netduino2            Netduino 2 Machine (Cortex-M3)
netduinoplus2        Netduino Plus 2 Machine (Cortex-M4)
none                 empty machine
npcm750-evb          Nuvoton NPCM750 Evaluation Board (Cortex-A9)
nuri                 Samsung NURI board (Exynos4210)
olimex-stm32-h405    Olimex STM32-H405 (Cortex-M4)
orangepi-pc          Orange Pi PC (Cortex-A7)
palmetto-bmc         OpenPOWER Palmetto BMC (ARM926EJ-S)
qcom-dc-scm-v1-bmc   Qualcomm DC-SCM V1 BMC (Cortex A7)
qcom-firework-bmc    Qualcomm DC-SCM V1/Firework BMC (Cortex A7)
quanta-gbs-bmc       Quanta GBS (Cortex-A9)
quanta-gsj           Quanta GSJ (Cortex-A9)
quanta-q71l-bmc      Quanta-Q71l BMC (ARM926EJ-S)
rainier-bmc          IBM Rainier BMC (Cortex-A7)
raspi0               Raspberry Pi Zero (revision 1.2)
raspi1ap             Raspberry Pi A+ (revision 1.1)
raspi2b              Raspberry Pi 2B (revision 1.1)
realview-eb          ARM RealView Emulation Baseboard (ARM926EJ-S)
realview-eb-mpcore   ARM RealView Emulation Baseboard (ARM11MPCore)
realview-pb-a8       ARM RealView Platform Baseboard for Cortex-A8
realview-pbx-a9      ARM RealView Platform Baseboard Explore for Cortex-A9
romulus-bmc          OpenPOWER Romulus BMC (ARM1176)
sabrelite            Freescale i.MX6 Quad SABRE Lite Board (Cortex-A9)
smdkc210             Samsung SMDKC210 board (Exynos4210)
sonorapass-bmc       OCP SonoraPass BMC (ARM1176)
stm32vldiscovery     ST STM32VLDISCOVERY (Cortex-M3)
supermicro-x11spi-bmc Supermicro X11 SPI BMC (ARM1176)
supermicrox11-bmc    Supermicro X11 BMC (ARM926EJ-S)
sx1                  Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V2
sx1-v1               Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V1
tacoma-bmc           OpenPOWER Tacoma BMC (Cortex-A7) (deprecated)
tiogapass-bmc        Facebook Tiogapass BMC (ARM1176)
versatileab          ARM Versatile/AB (ARM926EJ-S)
versatilepb          ARM Versatile/PB (ARM926EJ-S)
vexpress-a15         ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A15
vexpress-a9          ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A9
virt-2.10            QEMU 2.10 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-2.11            QEMU 2.11 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-2.12            QEMU 2.12 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-2.6             QEMU 2.6 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-2.7             QEMU 2.7 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-2.8             QEMU 2.8 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-2.9             QEMU 2.9 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-3.0             QEMU 3.0 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-3.1             QEMU 3.1 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-4.0             QEMU 4.0 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-4.1             QEMU 4.1 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-4.2             QEMU 4.2 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-5.0             QEMU 5.0 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-5.1             QEMU 5.1 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-5.2             QEMU 5.2 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-6.0             QEMU 6.0 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-6.1             QEMU 6.1 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-6.2             QEMU 6.2 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-7.0             QEMU 7.0 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-7.1             QEMU 7.1 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-7.2             QEMU 7.2 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-8.0             QEMU 8.0 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-8.1             QEMU 8.1 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-8.2             QEMU 8.2 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-9.0             QEMU 9.0 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-9.1             QEMU 9.1 ARM Virtual Machine
virt                 QEMU 9.2 ARM Virtual Machine (alias of virt-9.2)
virt-9.2             QEMU 9.2 ARM Virtual Machine
witherspoon-bmc      OpenPOWER Witherspoon BMC (ARM1176)
xilinx-zynq-a9       Xilinx Zynq Platform Baseboard for Cortex-A9
yosemitev2-bmc       Facebook YosemiteV2 BMC (ARM1176)

$ .../qemu-arm/bin/qemu-system-arm -cpu help
Available CPUs:
  arm1026
  arm1136
  arm1136-r2
  arm1176
  arm11mpcore
  arm926
  arm946
  cortex-a15
  cortex-a7
  cortex-a8
  cortex-a9
  cortex-m0
  cortex-m3
  cortex-m33
  cortex-m4
  cortex-m55
  cortex-m7
  cortex-r5
  cortex-r52
  cortex-r5f
  max
  pxa250
  pxa255
  pxa260
  pxa261
  pxa262
  pxa270-a0
  pxa270-a1
  pxa270
  pxa270-b0
  pxa270-b1
  pxa270-c0
  pxa270-c5
  sa1100
  sa1110
  ti925t

$ .../qemu-system-aarch64 -machine help
Supported machines are:
ast1030-evb          Aspeed AST1030 MiniBMC (Cortex-M4)
ast2500-evb          Aspeed AST2500 EVB (ARM1176)
ast2600-evb          Aspeed AST2600 EVB (Cortex-A7)
ast2700-evb          Aspeed AST2700 EVB (Cortex-A35)
b-l475e-iot01a       B-L475E-IOT01A Discovery Kit (Cortex-M4)
bletchley-bmc        Facebook Bletchley BMC (Cortex-A7)
bpim2u               Bananapi M2U (Cortex-A7)
canon-a1100          Canon PowerShot A1100 IS (ARM946)
collie               Sharp SL-5500 (Collie) PDA (SA-1110)
cubieboard           cubietech cubieboard (Cortex-A8)
emcraft-sf2          SmartFusion2 SOM kit from Emcraft (M2S010)
fby35-bmc            Facebook fby35 BMC (Cortex-A7)
fby35                Meta Platforms fby35
fp5280g2-bmc         Inspur FP5280G2 BMC (ARM1176)
fuji-bmc             Facebook Fuji BMC (Cortex-A7)
g220a-bmc            Bytedance G220A BMC (ARM1176)
highbank             Calxeda Highbank (ECX-1000)
imx25-pdk            ARM i.MX25 PDK board (ARM926)
integratorcp         ARM Integrator/CP (ARM926EJ-S)
kudo-bmc             Kudo BMC (Cortex-A9)
kzm                  ARM KZM Emulation Baseboard (ARM1136)
lm3s6965evb          Stellaris LM3S6965EVB (Cortex-M3)
lm3s811evb           Stellaris LM3S811EVB (Cortex-M3)
mcimx6ul-evk         Freescale i.MX6UL Evaluation Kit (Cortex-A7)
mcimx7d-sabre        Freescale i.MX7 DUAL SABRE (Cortex-A7)
microbit             BBC micro:bit (Cortex-M0)
midway               Calxeda Midway (ECX-2000)
mori-bmc             Mori BMC (Cortex-A9)
mps2-an385           ARM MPS2 with AN385 FPGA image for Cortex-M3
mps2-an386           ARM MPS2 with AN386 FPGA image for Cortex-M4
mps2-an500           ARM MPS2 with AN500 FPGA image for Cortex-M7
mps2-an505           ARM MPS2 with AN505 FPGA image for Cortex-M33
mps2-an511           ARM MPS2 with AN511 DesignStart FPGA image for Cortex-M3
mps2-an521           ARM MPS2 with AN521 FPGA image for dual Cortex-M33
mps3-an524           ARM MPS3 with AN524 FPGA image for dual Cortex-M33
mps3-an536           ARM MPS3 with AN536 FPGA image for Cortex-R52
mps3-an547           ARM MPS3 with AN547 FPGA image for Cortex-M55
musca-a              ARM Musca-A board (dual Cortex-M33)
musca-b1             ARM Musca-B1 board (dual Cortex-M33)
musicpal             Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal (ARM926EJ-S)
netduino2            Netduino 2 Machine (Cortex-M3)
netduinoplus2        Netduino Plus 2 Machine (Cortex-M4)
none                 empty machine
npcm750-evb          Nuvoton NPCM750 Evaluation Board (Cortex-A9)
nuri                 Samsung NURI board (Exynos4210)
olimex-stm32-h405    Olimex STM32-H405 (Cortex-M4)
orangepi-pc          Orange Pi PC (Cortex-A7)
palmetto-bmc         OpenPOWER Palmetto BMC (ARM926EJ-S)
qcom-dc-scm-v1-bmc   Qualcomm DC-SCM V1 BMC (Cortex A7)
qcom-firework-bmc    Qualcomm DC-SCM V1/Firework BMC (Cortex A7)
quanta-gbs-bmc       Quanta GBS (Cortex-A9)
quanta-gsj           Quanta GSJ (Cortex-A9)
quanta-q71l-bmc      Quanta-Q71l BMC (ARM926EJ-S)
rainier-bmc          IBM Rainier BMC (Cortex-A7)
raspi0               Raspberry Pi Zero (revision 1.2)
raspi1ap             Raspberry Pi A+ (revision 1.1)
raspi2b              Raspberry Pi 2B (revision 1.1)
raspi3ap             Raspberry Pi 3A+ (revision 1.0)
raspi3b              Raspberry Pi 3B (revision 1.2)
raspi4b              Raspberry Pi 4B (revision 1.5)
realview-eb          ARM RealView Emulation Baseboard (ARM926EJ-S)
realview-eb-mpcore   ARM RealView Emulation Baseboard (ARM11MPCore)
realview-pb-a8       ARM RealView Platform Baseboard for Cortex-A8
realview-pbx-a9      ARM RealView Platform Baseboard Explore for Cortex-A9
romulus-bmc          OpenPOWER Romulus BMC (ARM1176)
sabrelite            Freescale i.MX6 Quad SABRE Lite Board (Cortex-A9)
sbsa-ref             QEMU 'SBSA Reference' ARM Virtual Machine
smdkc210             Samsung SMDKC210 board (Exynos4210)
sonorapass-bmc       OCP SonoraPass BMC (ARM1176)
stm32vldiscovery     ST STM32VLDISCOVERY (Cortex-M3)
supermicro-x11spi-bmc Supermicro X11 SPI BMC (ARM1176)
supermicrox11-bmc    Supermicro X11 BMC (ARM926EJ-S)
sx1                  Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V2
sx1-v1               Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V1
tacoma-bmc           OpenPOWER Tacoma BMC (Cortex-A7) (deprecated)
tiogapass-bmc        Facebook Tiogapass BMC (ARM1176)
versatileab          ARM Versatile/AB (ARM926EJ-S)
versatilepb          ARM Versatile/PB (ARM926EJ-S)
vexpress-a15         ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A15
vexpress-a9          ARM Versatile Express for Cortex-A9
virt-2.10            QEMU 2.10 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-2.11            QEMU 2.11 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-2.12            QEMU 2.12 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-2.6             QEMU 2.6 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-2.7             QEMU 2.7 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-2.8             QEMU 2.8 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-2.9             QEMU 2.9 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-3.0             QEMU 3.0 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-3.1             QEMU 3.1 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-4.0             QEMU 4.0 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-4.1             QEMU 4.1 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-4.2             QEMU 4.2 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-5.0             QEMU 5.0 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-5.1             QEMU 5.1 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-5.2             QEMU 5.2 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-6.0             QEMU 6.0 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-6.1             QEMU 6.1 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-6.2             QEMU 6.2 ARM Virtual Machine (deprecated)
virt-7.0             QEMU 7.0 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-7.1             QEMU 7.1 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-7.2             QEMU 7.2 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-8.0             QEMU 8.0 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-8.1             QEMU 8.1 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-8.2             QEMU 8.2 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-9.0             QEMU 9.0 ARM Virtual Machine
virt-9.1             QEMU 9.1 ARM Virtual Machine
virt                 QEMU 9.2 ARM Virtual Machine (alias of virt-9.2)
virt-9.2             QEMU 9.2 ARM Virtual Machine
witherspoon-bmc      OpenPOWER Witherspoon BMC (ARM1176)
xilinx-zynq-a9       Xilinx Zynq Platform Baseboard for Cortex-A9
xlnx-versal-virt     Xilinx Versal Virtual development board
xlnx-zcu102          Xilinx ZynqMP ZCU102 board with 4xA53s and 2xR5Fs based on the value of smp
yosemitev2-bmc       Facebook YosemiteV2 BMC (ARM1176)

$ .../qemu-system-aarch64 -cpu help
Available CPUs:
  a64fx
  arm1026
  arm1136
  arm1136-r2
  arm1176
  arm11mpcore
  arm926
  arm946
  cortex-a15
  cortex-a35
  cortex-a53
  cortex-a55
  cortex-a57
  cortex-a7
  cortex-a710
  cortex-a72
  cortex-a76
  cortex-a8
  cortex-a9
  cortex-m0
  cortex-m3
  cortex-m33
  cortex-m4
  cortex-m55
  cortex-m7
  cortex-r5
  cortex-r52
  cortex-r5f
  max
  neoverse-n1
  neoverse-n2
  neoverse-v1
  pxa250
  pxa255
  pxa260
  pxa261
  pxa262
  pxa270-a0
  pxa270-a1
  pxa270
  pxa270-b0
  pxa270-b1
  pxa270-c0
  pxa270-c5
  sa1100
  sa1110
  ti925t

Legacy

The deprecated qemu-system-gnuarmeclipse binary is no longer provided.

Bug fixes

none

Enhancements

none

Known problems

none

Documentation

The original documentation is available on-line:

https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/

Build

The binaries for all supported platforms (Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux) were built using the xPack Build Box (XBB), a set of build environments based on slightly older distributions, that should be compatible with most recent systems.

For the prerequisites and more details on the build procedure, please see the Maintainer Info page.

CI tests

Before publishing, a set of simple tests were performed on an exhaustive set of platforms. The results are available from:

GitHub Actions

Tests

he binaries were tested on Windows, Ubuntu (x64 and arm64), and macOS (x64 and arm64).

For qemu-system-arm and qemu-system-aarch64, the tests consist in simple, non-graphical, semihosting apps. The binaries are borrowed from µTest++ and are available from the tests folder.

.../xpack-qemu-arm-6.2.0-1/bin/qemu-system-arm --version
xPack QEMU emulator version 6.2.0 (v6.2.0-1-xpack-arm)
Copyright (c) 2003-2021 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

mkdir -p ~/Downloads
(cd ~/Downloads; curl -L --fail -o mps2-an386-sample-test.elf \
https://github.com/xpack-dev-tools/qemu-arm-xpack/raw/xpack/tests/mps2-an386-sample-test.elf)

.../xpack-qemu-arm-6.2.0-1/bin/qemu-system-arm \
--machine mps2-an386 \
--kernel ~/Downloads/mps2-an386-sample-test.elf \
--nographic \
-d unimp,guest_errors \
--semihosting-config enable=on,target=native,arg=sample-test,arg=one,arg=two
...

Checksums

The SHA-256 hashes for the files are:

2752ae3bdff112a8574373157ef1e0eb51fd50b1ee8554275f2ff20ba1ff1b6d
xpack-qemu-arm-9.2.4-1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz

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xpack-qemu-arm-9.2.4-1-darwin-x64.tar.gz

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xpack-qemu-arm-9.2.4-1-linux-arm64.tar.gz

203dc2c71e25fcf97b95181328e9b888cc8092ff404bffd4d267b9defabcb698
xpack-qemu-arm-9.2.4-1-linux-x64.tar.gz

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xpack-qemu-arm-9.2.4-1-win32-x64.zip

Deprecation notices

GNU/Linux minimum requirements

The minimum requirement is GLIBC 2.28, available starting with Ubuntu 20, Debian 10 and RedHat 8. Support for RedHat 7 was dropped in 2022. Support for Ubuntu 18 was dropped in 2025.

32-bit support

Support for 32-bit x64 GNU/Linux and x64 Windows was dropped in 2022 and for 32-bit Arm GNU/Linux in 2025.

Pre-deprecation notice for x64 macOS

Apple has discontinued support for the x64 (Intel) architecture. GitHub will no longer support this architecture on macOS after the macOS 15 runner image is retired in November 2027; building and testing x64 macOS binaries will become more difficult, requiring a self-hosted runner, and cannot be guaranteed in the long term.

You should begin migrating your projects to arm64-based (Apple Silicon) binaries to prepare for this possible deprecation.

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