<p>In this episode,  Karsten Hohage talks about QEMU with Helge Deller from SAP and Alex Bennée from Linaro. QEMU, short for “Quick Emulator”, is a virtualization software that can be used to emulate various types of hardware. They discuss the open source aspects of QEMU, how it is used in various aspects of the software development lifecycle, and how it helps the software ecosystem.</p>



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<p><strong>Helge Deller</strong></p>



<p>Helge is head of SAP&#8217;s Linux lab, which is responsible for the development, certification and support<strong> </strong>of<strong>&nbsp;</strong>SAP products on Linux. And in his spare time, he is a maintainer of the RISC and PA-RISC Linux port and various areas of the Linux kernel. And he contributes to QEMU. &nbsp;</p>



<p>LinkedIn:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/helge-deller/?originalSubdomain=de" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">https://www.linkedin.com/in/helge-deller</a></p>



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<p><strong><strong>Alex Bennée</strong></strong></p>



<p>Alex is a senior tech lead for virtualization and emulation at Linaro. Over his career, he has worked on devices from one-armed bandits to microwave communication systems.</p>



<p>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbennee/?originalSubdomain=uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbennee/</a></p>



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<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Show Notes</strong>:</h4>



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<li><strong>QEMU Project</strong>
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<li>Project homepage: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.qemu.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cajinkya.patil%40sap.com%7C428f91bd6ed24f1b657e08ddc3b040cd%7C42f7676cf455423c82f6dc2d99791af7%7C0%7C0%7C638881883966391874%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GYsg2SVi16hWg%2FjyJkgnDwRS1Nm9NFYU2FUl0qAp6to%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.qemu.org</a></li>



<li>Code repo:&nbsp;<a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.com%2Fqemu-project%2Fqemu&data=05%7C02%7Cajinkya.patil%40sap.com%7C428f91bd6ed24f1b657e08ddc3b040cd%7C42f7676cf455423c82f6dc2d99791af7%7C0%7C0%7C638881883966417685%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fQrwuYlPJRbuOA2V3ADC3cwCQAcm%2BpEmxF4fopNd1Gk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu</a></li>



<li>Issues:&nbsp;<a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.com%2Fqemu-project%2Fqemu%2F-%2Fissues&data=05%7C02%7Cajinkya.patil%40sap.com%7C428f91bd6ed24f1b657e08ddc3b040cd%7C42f7676cf455423c82f6dc2d99791af7%7C0%7C0%7C638881883966436423%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=QHa9fafzjq0lKHPVmH2JGoypkN2dDN8VUf8YDZtiYF0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues</a></li>



<li>Documentation:&nbsp;<a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fqemu.readthedocs.io%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cajinkya.patil%40sap.com%7C428f91bd6ed24f1b657e08ddc3b040cd%7C42f7676cf455423c82f6dc2d99791af7%7C0%7C0%7C638881883966452272%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=iEyqb5fk%2BY3U9ri%2BiXwMe%2B2cj2gU1xnuUS0PAidIYNA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://qemu.readthedocs.io</a></li>
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<li><strong>SAP Open Source Program Office</strong>
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<li><a href="https://url.sap/i6hec5" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">SAP Open Source at SAP Community</a></li>



<li><a href="https://twitter.com/sapopensource" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">SAP Open Source Twitter (@sapopensource)</a></li>



<li>Email us: <a href="mailto:ospo@sap.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ospo@sap.com</a></li>
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<li><strong>Additional Downloads</strong>
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<li>Download the <a href="https://sap-podcast-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/open-source-way/25-07-opensourceway-49.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Download the transcript as PDF file">transcript</a> as PDF file</li>



<li>QEMU:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.qemu.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">https://www.qemu.org/</a></li>



<li>Linaro:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linaro.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">https://www.linaro.org/</a></li>



<li>KVM:&nbsp;<a href="https://linux-kvm.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">https://linux-kvm.org/</a></li>



<li>PA-RISC:&nbsp;<a href="https://parisc.docs.kernel.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">https://parisc.docs.kernel.org/</a></li>



<li>Alex on GitHub:&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/stsquad" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">https://github.com/stsquad</a></li>



<li>Helge on GitHub:&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/hdeller" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">https://github.com/hdeller</a></li>
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<li><strong>Try out an open-source podcast player</strong> – find a list <a href="https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=podcast+player%2Copen+source" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">here</a> (list not maintained by SAP)</li>
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<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Host:</strong></h4>



<p id="block-8a35e260-02e9-46d4-b577-8f76035e8027"><strong>Karsten Hohage –&nbsp;</strong>Product Expert in Technology and Innovation (T&I)</p>


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<p id="block-1d15dfc9-26db-4233-a5d1-8b8dc19dce9a">LinkedIn:&nbsp;<a href="https://url.sap/i1itkn" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-hohage-0180312/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-hohage-0180312/</a></p>



<div style="height:40px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div><p>The post <a href="https://podcast.opensap.info/open-source-way/2025/07/17/qemu/">QEMU</a> first appeared on <a href="https://podcast.opensap.info/open-source-way">The Open Source Way</a>.</p>

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