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Mastering QEMU Emulation is the definitive, modern, and fully hands-on guide for developers, system programmers, firmware engineers, and researchers building real multi-architecture systems using QEMU in 2025 and beyond. Designed for practical, production-level learning, this book provides a complete walkthrough of QEMU's capabilities across ARM, RISC-V, x86, microcontrollers, SystemReady/UEFI platforms, device models, and advanced system simulation workflows. Unlike outdated or theoretical virtualization books, this guide focuses entirely on practical, build-driven engineering. Every chapter ends with a structured Practice Lab, and the book concludes with a full-stack, multi-architecture capstone project that integrates ARM, RISC-V, and x86 systems into a fully automated emulation pipeline. You will build, boot, instrument, debug, and extend complete operating systems, firmware stages, device models, and test rigs-exactly how professionals work with modern emulated platforms today. What You Will Learn ✔ Modern Multi-Architecture Emulation (2025 Edition) Master QEMU's latest features, including TCG plugins, coverage tracing, replay, VirtIO advancements, PCIe/NVMe models, and hybrid emulation techniques. ✔ ARM Emulation End-to-End Build and boot Cortex-A and AArch64 platforms using U-Boot, ATF, EDK2/UEFI, VirtIO devices, and Linux kernels-then debug them with GDB, semihosting, and trace events. ✔ RISC-V Emulation with OpenSBI + Linux Create a complete RISC-V OS stack: OpenSBI firmware, kernel images, custom root filesystems, RVV vector extensions, security features, and privileged mode experiments. ✔ x86/UEFI/OVMF + Kernel Workflows Emulate PC, Q35, and microvm platforms; use BIOS, OVMF/UEFI, Secure Boot flows; build custom Linux kernels; explore APIC, IOMMU, nested virtualization, and instrumented execution. ✔ QEMU Device Model Development Understand qdev architecture, memory regions, interrupts, VirtIO internals, PCIe devices, and modern QEMU coding patterns. Implement your own minimal device model from scratch. ✔ System Simulation & Hardware/Software Co-Design Use QEMU as a full system simulator for firmware validation, custom ISA testing, driver development, and distributed system prototypes. Why This Book Stands Out This is not a generic virtualization overview. It is a fully up-to-date, architecture-spanning engineering manual built for: Operating system developers Firmware and embedded engineers Security researchers Emulation and virtualization professionals Students and hobbyists exploring bare-metal concepts Anyone building real systems with QEMU today Built with depth, accuracy, structure, hands-on workflows, and future-proof guidance, this book delivers an unmatched practical foundation for mastering modern QEMU emulation.

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