Within the context of the Yocto Project, QEMU is an emulator and virtualization machine that allows you to run a complete image you have built using the Yocto Project as just another task on your build system. QEMU is useful for running and testing images and applications on supported Yocto Project architectures without having actual hardware. Among other things, the Yocto Project uses QEMU to run automated Quality Assurance (QA) tests on final images shipped with each release.
This section provides a brief reference for the Yocto Project implementation of QEMU.
For official information and documentation on QEMU in general, see the following references:
QEMU Website: The official website for the QEMU Open Source project.
Documentation: The QEMU user manual.