July 17, 2025

QEMU

29 minutes

In this episode, Karsten Hohage talks about QEMU with Helge Deller from SAP and Alex Bennée from Linaro. QEMU, short for “Quick Emulator”, is a virtualization software that can be used to emulate various types of hardware. They discuss the open source aspects of QEMU, how it is used in various aspects of the software development lifecycle, and how it helps the software ecosystem.

Guests:

Helge Deller

Helge is head of SAP’s Linux lab, which is responsible for the development, certification and support of SAP products on Linux. And in his spare time, he is a maintainer of the RISC and PA-RISC Linux port and various areas of the Linux kernel. And he contributes to QEMU. 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helge-deller

Alex Bennée

Alex is a senior tech lead for virtualization and emulation at Linaro. Over his career, he has worked on devices from one-armed bandits to microwave communication systems.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbennee/

Show Notes:

QEMU Project

Project homepage: http://www.qemu.org

Code repo: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu

Issues: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues

Documentation: https://qemu.readthedocs.io

SAP Open Source Program Office

SAP Open Source at SAP Community

SAP Open Source Twitter (@sapopensource)

Email us: [email protected]

Additional Downloads

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QEMU: https://www.qemu.org/

Linaro: https://www.linaro.org/

KVM: https://linux-kvm.org/

PA-RISC: https://parisc.docs.kernel.org/

Alex on GitHub: https://github.com/stsquad

Helge on GitHub: https://github.com/hdeller

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Host:

Karsten Hohage – Product Expert in Technology and Innovation (T&I)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-hohage-0180312/

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