docs/about/build-platforms.rst

1 .. _Supported-build-platforms:
21 support targets, QEMU considers only the version number, and assumes the
23 version. In other words, if a distro backports extra features to the
25 support for those backports, unless the feature is auto-detectable in a
33 :ref:`setup-build-env` page.
36 ----------------------------
40   .. list-table::
41    :header-rows: 1
43    * - CPU Architecture
44      - Accelerators
45    * - Arm
46      - hvf (64 bit only), kvm (64 bit only), tcg, xen
47    * - MIPS (64 bit little endian only)
48      - kvm, tcg
49    * - PPC
50      - kvm, tcg
51    * - RISC-V
52      - kvm, tcg
53    * - s390x
54      - kvm, tcg
55    * - SPARC
56      - tcg
57    * - x86
58      - hvf (64 bit only), kvm, nvmm, tcg, whpx (64 bit only), xen
62 ``--enable-tcg-interpreter`` option to enable the TCI support, but note that
64 requires host-specific support for signal handling, therefore TCI won't help
67 Non-supported architectures may be removed in the future following the
71 -----------------------------------------
73 The project aims to support the most recent major version at all times for
75 for the previous major version will be dropped 2 years after the new major
76 version is released or when the vendor itself drops support, whichever comes
77 first. In this context, third-party efforts to extend the lifetime of a distro
96   Distributions with long-term support often provide multiple versions
98   distribution's default runtime, it may later increase its minimum version
100   In this case, it will be necessary to use the ``--python`` command line
102   version of the Python runtime.
104   As of QEMU |version|, the minimum supported version of Python is 3.9.
109   If QEMU bumps its minimum Python version and a non-default runtime is
117   supported version of bindgen is 0.60.x.  For distributions that do not
118   include bindgen or have an older version, it is recommended to install
119   a newer version using ``cargo install bindgen-cli``.
123   For all other architectures, Debian bookworm provides a new-enough Rust
124   compiler in the ``rustc-web`` package.
126   Also, on Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04 this requires the ``rustc-1.77``
136   of optional build-time dependency; in this case it is possible to
137   download them from repositories such as EPEL, to use container-based
138   cross compilation using ``docker`` or ``podman``, or to use pre-built
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153 A more recent Windows version is always preferred as it is less likely to have
161 Only 64-bit Windows is supported.