# airbus-seclab/qemu_blog

A series of posts about QEMU internals:

Repository: https://github.com/airbus-seclab/qemu_blog
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/qemu_blog
Homepage: https://airbus-seclab.github.io/qemu_blog/
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2023-11-03T11:07:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1958, "days_push": 1034, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1530, forks 162 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:59.342405+00:00)

## What it is
A series of technical blog posts by Airbus SECLab explaining QEMU internals, covering topics like machine creation, memory regions, devices, PCI, TCG, and snapshots. It is educational material aimed at helping developers understand and hack into QEMU's source code.

## Use cases
- learn how QEMU emulation works internally
- understand TCG translation internals
- write a custom QEMU device or machine model
- understand QEMU memory regions and interrupt controllers
- prepare for security research on QEMU
- learn how QEMU snapshots and breakpoints work

## When to choose
- you want to modify or extend QEMU source code
- you need deep internals knowledge beyond official docs
- you are doing emulator-based security research

## When to avoid
- you just want to run VMs with QEMU
- you need official usage documentation
- you need a maintained tool rather than reading material

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: tutorials, developer-tools, operating-systems
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: qemu, emulation, virtualization, tcg, internals, security-research

## Member repositories
- airbus-seclab/qemu_blog (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.342405+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:23.826226+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/airbus-seclab/qemu_blog (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.342405+00:00, sha 2583d3e7cd83)
  - homepage: https://airbus-seclab.github.io/qemu_blog/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:34:00.150526+00:00, sha cf75400e4f4e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.