AQEMU GUI for QEMU compiled in OE

July 17, 2023 — BarryK

This morning I posted about compiling QtEmu:

https://bkhome.org/news/202307/qtemu-gui-for-qemu-compiled-in-oe.html

Prior to that, I had tried a few other GUIs for QEMU, with limited success. I did try AQEMU, but it crashed at startup, with "Segmentation fault". The official project is here:

https://github.com/tobimensch/aqemu

...but the latest source from there crashes. I also tried version 0.9.4 from here, which also crashed at startup:

https://github.com/TBK/aqemu/

The Debian package maintainers are still on 0.9.2, but with several patches:

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/aqemu

So, that's the one I compiled and it works.

EasySetup will now offer a choice of QtEmu or AQEMU in the "Virtual Machines" category. AQEMU looks like the best bet, with more features and documentation. Here is some documentation for AQEMU:

https://anyon3.github.io/aqemu.html

Here is the recipe in OE to compile AQEMU:

https://github.com/bkauler/oe-qky-kirkstone/commit/c0bb8eef1e336e9c0dd887f44a11796d87f4e341

Tags: easy