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<section id="s390x-system-emulator">
<span id="id1"></span><h1>s390x System emulator<a class="headerlink" href="#s390x-system-emulator" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>QEMU can emulate z/Architecture (in particular, 64 bit) s390x systems
via the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">qemu-system-s390x</span></code> binary. Only one machine type,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">s390-ccw-virtio</span></code>, is supported (with versioning for compatibility
handling).</p>
<p>When using KVM as accelerator, QEMU can emulate CPUs up to the generation
of the host. When using the default cpu model with TCG as accelerator,
QEMU will emulate a subset of z13 cpu features that should be enough to run
distributions built for the z13.</p>
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<h2>Device support<a class="headerlink" href="#device-support" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>QEMU will not emulate most of the traditional devices found under LPAR or
z/VM; virtio devices (especially using virtio-ccw) make up the bulk of
the available devices. Passthrough of host devices via vfio-pci, vfio-ccw,
or vfio-ap is also available.</p>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="s390x/vfio-ccw.html#step-1-configure-the-host-device">Step 1: configure the host device</a></li>
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<h2>Architectural features<a class="headerlink" href="#architectural-features" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="s390x/cpu-topology.html">CPU topology on s390x</a><ul>
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