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# Introduction
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**Quickemu** is a wrapper for the excellent [QEMU](https://www.qemu.org/) that
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automatically *"does the right thing"* when creating virtual machines. No
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requirement for exhaustive configuration options. You decide what operating
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system you want to run and Quickemu takes care of the rest 🤖
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- `quickget` **automatically downloads the upstream OS** and creates the configuration 📀
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- `quickemu` enumerates your hardware and launches the virtual machine with the **optimum configuration best suited to your computer** ⚡️
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The original objective of the project was to [enable quick testing of Linux
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distributions](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/02-Create-Linux-virtual-machines)
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where the virtual machines and their configuration can be stored anywhere (such
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as external USB storage or your home directory) and no elevated permissions are
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required to run the virtual machines.
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**Today, Quickemu includes comprehensive support for [macOS](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/03-Create-macOS-virtual-machines),
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[Windows](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/04-Create-Windows-virtual-machines)**, most of the BSDs, novel non-Linux operating systems such as FreeDOS, Haiku, KolibriOS, OpenIndiana, ReactOS, and more.
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