By @michaellarabel
Publication Date: 2026-04-22 14:14:00
The QEMU 11.0 emulator is now available for this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack.
There are a wide variety of changes for QEMU 11.0 affecting all the major architectures and a lot of other refinements in the QEMU codebase. Some of the QEMU 11.0 highlights include:
– Dropping old, out-of-date i440FX and Q35 machines.
– The Tiny Code Generator (TCG) supports more instructions on LoongArch like SC.Q, LLACQ/SCREL, and estimated reciprocal instructions.
– RISC-V on QEMU 11.0 also now supports the ZALASR extension, Zilsd and Zclsd extensions and Smpmpmt.
– Support for the MIPS P8700 CPU.
– The CPU model for Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids is added.
– A new “nitro” accelerator can be used with the new nitro machine for supporting AWS Nitro Enclaves natively under QEMU.
– QEMU 11.0 on KVM now supports Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) virtualization.
– AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX machines with KVM can now be reset on QEMU 11.0.
– QEMU 11.0’s VirtIO-GPU support now has the ability to handle native context drivers.
More details on the QEMU 11.0 changes can be found via the QEMU.org Wiki.
