Introduction

The QEMU PC System emulator simulates the following peripherals:

  • i440FX host PCI bridge and PIIX3 PCI to ISA bridge
  • Cirrus CLGD 5446 PCI VGA card or dummy VGA card with Bochs VESA extensions (hardware level, including all non standard modes).
  • PS/2 mouse and keyboard
  • 2 PCI IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
  • Floppy disk
  • PCI and ISA network adapters
  • Serial ports
  • IPMI BMC, either and internal or external one
  • Creative SoundBlaster 16 sound card
  • ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370 sound card
  • Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio compatible sound card
  • Intel HD Audio Controller and HDA codec
  • Adlib (OPL2) - Yamaha YM3812 compatible chip
  • Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card
  • CS4231A compatible sound card
  • PCI UHCI USB controller and a virtual USB hub.

SMP is supported with up to 255 CPUs.

QEMU uses the PC BIOS from the Seabios project and the Plex86/Bochs LGPL VGA BIOS.

QEMU uses YM3812 emulation by Tatsuyuki Satoh.

QEMU uses GUS emulation (GUSEMU32 http://www.deinmeister.de/gusemu/) by Tibor “TS” Schütz.

Note that, by default, GUS shares IRQ(7) with parallel ports and so QEMU must be told to not have parallel ports to have working GUS.

qemu-system-i386 dos.img -soundhw gus -parallel none

Alternatively:

qemu-system-i386 dos.img -device gus,irq=5

Or some other unclaimed IRQ.

CS4231A is the chip used in Windows Sound System and GUSMAX products