The qemu emulation environment, including the accelerators kqemu and kvm, lets you run a variety of software on your computer in a protected environment. This includes software that is incompatible with your operating system. Another option is VMWare, commercial software with a no-cost runtime version.
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The qemu emulation environment, including the accelerators kqemu and kvm, lets you run a variety of software on your computer in a protected environment. This includes software that is incompatible with your operating system, and software for different processors. Another option is VMWare, commercial software with a no-cost runtime version.
==Use Cases==
==Use Cases==
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* [[Macintosh]]: Run Sugar, School Server, any Linux
* [[Macintosh]]: Run Sugar, School Server, any Linux
* Linux on Linux: [[Fedora]] (including School Server) on [[Ubuntu]] and the like
* Linux on Linux: [[Fedora]] (including School Server) on [[Ubuntu]] and the like
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* Sugar on Arm processors: [[Encore Mobilis]] and proposed [[XO-2]]