QEMU Advent Calendar 2018

A game that fits into a 512 bytes boot sector! Written in pure x86 assembly language, featuring simply text mode graphics and PC-speaker sound, source code included.

Size of download is 5 kB.

netboot.xyz is a x86 OS installer based on iPXE. It offers a range of Linux, BSD, and other OS installers and live images that can be booted over the internet without downloading ISOs first.

Prepared by Stefan Hajnoczi. Size of download is 1 kB.

PC-MOS/386 is a multitasking MS-DOS compatible operating system, licensed under the GPLv3 since 2017. Our disk image comes with the freeware program CAROLS.EXE to provide you with some seasonal music.

Prepared by Kashyap Chamarthy. Size of download is 460 kB.

Play the game “120 degrees below zero” running via ScummVM in QEMU's “versatilepb” Arm machine emulation.

Size of download is 11 MB.

Travel around the globe with Santa in the game “Sanity Clause”, a text adventure running via the AGiliTy interpreter in QEMU's “mcf5208evb” M68k machine emulation.

Size of download is 2 MB.

Beside QEMU's 15th anniversary, there is another one to celebrate this year: The Debian project turned 25 recently! Kudos to the project with a VM installation of Debian 0.93r6.

Prepared by Alberto Garcia. Size of download is 24 MB.

Build your own city in the game µCity, running in a Gameboy Color emulator with the unikernel OS IncludeOS.

Contributed by Alf-André Walla. Size of download is 2 MB.

XorCurses is a remake of the old 8-bit puzzle game XOR, using ncurses for its graphics. This version is running in QEMU's 32-bit SPARC emulation.

Size of download is 3.4 MB.

No disk image today, but a new release of QEMU: Version 3.1.0 has just been published yesterday – please download the package and give it a try!

Size of download is 34 MB.

Santa got lost and you have to rescue him in this adventure running in ScummVM on QEMU's “malta“ MIPS machine emulation.

Size of download is 7.2 MB.

You thought that you could retire after the last adventure? No, Santa needs your help again in this text adventure running via AGiliTy in QEMU's “10m50-ghrd” NIOS II machine emulation.

Size of download is 9.7 MB.

Need some more action? Try to defend the earth in the game ASCII-Invaders, running in QEMU's “g3beige” 32-bit PowerMac machine emulation.

Size of download is 2.5 MB.

When it's getting cold, what's better than solving cozy puzzles with winter wonderland pictures, running in QEMU's “vexpress-a9” Arm machine emulation.

Size of download is 9 MB.

This is an image for QEMU's emulated Canon A1100 Arm machine: Play 2048 in the Barebox firmware environment.

Size of download is 108 kB.

Let's go for some ski jumping in the game “asciijump”, running in QEMU's “ppce500” PowerPC machine emulation.

Size of download is 10.2 MB.

Here are some old text adventures for you to play that are running in QEMU's OpenRISC (or1k) emulation.

Size of download is 2.3 MB.

QEMU 3.1 greatly improved support for virtualization on aarch64. This image shows this achievement by running a Linux VM (with some goodies, of course) on the L4Re hypervisor.

Contributed by Jakub Jermář. Size of download is 9 MB.

Did you ever play with a wooden train toy in your youth? Time to revive those memories with Ri-Li running in an emulated “malta” MIPS64 machine.

Size of download is 16.5 MB.

Relax to some old non-interactive animated ASCII Art, drawn in the terminal of a “sun4u” SPARC64 machine.

Size of download is 5.3 MB.

Santa brought you a brand new game for the latest target architecture in QEMU: Play a RISK-like game in an emulated RISC-V machine. Happy Holidays!

Written by Max Reitz. Music by Stefan Hajnoczi. Size: 3.7 MB.

About

The QEMU Advent Calendar 2018 features a QEMU disk image each day of December until Christmas. Each day a new package becomes available for download.

Every download contains a little 'run' shell script that starts the QEMU emulator with the recommended parameters for the disk image. Disk images are either contained directly in the download or are downloaded by the 'run' script (you need to have installed 'curl' or 'wget' in that case).

The disk images contain interesting operating systems and software that run under the QEMU emulator. Some of them are well-known or not-so-well-known operating systems, old and new, others are custom demos and neat algorithms.

The 'run' scripts (and disk images if included in the download) were created by volunteers from the QEMU community to showcase cool software that QEMU can run.