# geohot/qira

QEMU Interactive Runtime Analyser

Repository: https://github.com/geohot/qira
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/qira
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-07-02T21:00:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4380, "days_push": 1523, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4070, forks 467 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:34.206447+00:00)

## What it is
QIRA is a QEMU-based interactive runtime analyser that traces program execution and presents it in a web UI, acting as a competitor to strace and gdb. It supports multiple architectures (x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC) and includes IDA plugin integration.

## Use cases
- trace binary execution like strace but interactive
- reverse engineer binaries without a debugger
- debug cross-architecture programs like ARM or MIPS
- analyze program forks and multiple traces visually
- step through execution history of a program
- inspect register and memory changes during runtime

## When to choose
- you need time-travel style debugging of a binary
- you want strace-like tracing with a visual timeline
- you analyze binaries for foreign architectures via QEMU emulation
- you prefer a web UI over gdb's command line

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained tool on modern Linux distributions
- you only need simple strace output
- you require native Windows or macOS tracing
- you need a debugger with active community support

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: reverse-engineering, tracing, developer-tools
- domain: security, reverse-engineering, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: qemu, dynamic-analysis, binary-analysis, strace-alternative, gdb-alternative, web-ui, multi-architecture, debugging, command-line, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- geohot/qira (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.206447+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 2026-08-29T18:23:30.392996+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/geohot/qira (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.206447+00:00, sha 64f3cf20a173)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.