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+.. _s390x-System-emulator:
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+s390x System emulator
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+---------------------
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+QEMU can emulate z/Architecture (in particular, 64 bit) s390x systems
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+via the ``qemu-system-s390x`` binary. Only one machine type,
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+``s390-ccw-virtio``, is supported (with versioning for compatibility
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+handling).
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+When using KVM as accelerator, QEMU can emulate CPUs up to the generation
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+of the host. When using the default cpu model with TCG as accelerator,
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+QEMU will emulate a subset of z13 cpu features that should be enough to run
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+distributions built for the z13.
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+Device support
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+==============
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+QEMU will not emulate most of the traditional devices found under LPAR or
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+z/VM; virtio devices (especially using virtio-ccw) make up the bulk of
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+the available devices. Passthrough of host devices via vfio-pci, vfio-ccw,
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+or vfio-ap is also available.
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+.. toctree::
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+ s390x/vfio-ap
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