Deprecation Warning QEMUx86 Emulator for Linux is no longer actively maintained, so it is strongly recommended that you use VirtualBox Emulator instead.
webOS Open Source Edition (OSE) emulator is an x86 (x86_64) virtualization system based on QEMU virtualizer. Currently, the emulator only supports Linux Ubuntu as a host operating system.
Refer to the following for detailed information of each release.
Initial release (June 2018)
System Requirements
Note that this version of emulator is optimized for the following host environment.
Operating system
Linux Ubuntu
16.04 (32-bit and 64-bit)
14.04 (32-bit and 64-bit)
18.04 (64-bit) (not fully tested)
Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0 GHz or faster
Memory: 3 GB or more RAM
Display: 1920 x 1080 or higher screen resolution
Graphics card: 256 MB or more video memory with OpenGL 3.0 support
Required software
qemu 2.7.0 or higher version
virglrenderer 0.6.0 or higher version (0.6.0 tag version is recommended)
libsdl2-2.0-0 or higher version
OpenGL 3.0 or higher version
New Features
QEMUx86 virtual machine based emulator
Provides graphics performance with host PC’s GPU H/W acceleration
Emulates major features of webOS OSE platform on PC without RPi3 target device
Provides emulator run script with JSON configuration file for easy use
Supports webOS OSE CLI tool for application and platform development