EmuGUI documentation

EmuGUI installation guide for Windows

EmuGUI is a program released by Nicolas Lucien in 7th June, 2022. This program serves as a GUI frontend for QEMU. This is how to install it on Windows.

The About window of EmuGUI which is running on Windows 10. (Nicolas Lucien)

System requirements

Hold on! Is your computer compatible with EmuGUI? Let's check!

	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system	Windows 8.1 x64	Windows 10 Version 21H2 x64
Processor	x64 Dual Core Processor running at 2.6 GHz	x64 Quad Core Processor running at 3.2 GHz
RAM	6 GB	16 GB
Graphics	DirectX 10/OpenGL 2.1 supported	DirectX 12/OpenGL 3.3 supported
HDD	2 GB free space on a hard drive	20 GB free space on an SSD
Additional notes	QEMU must be installed for this to work.	QEMU must be installed for this to work.

Important: These are only template requirements for getting any VM to run. The real requirements depend on what OS you want to run. Some operating systems won't work with these barebone specifications.

Video version

Made by lucien-rowan (aka Nicolas Lucien). (C) 2022 lucien-rowan. All rights reserved.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOgNqtVw3Y4

Install the programs

Due to copyright, QEMU is not included in EmuGUI, meaning you have to install this first. But if your computer meets the minimum requirements of EmuGUI, it will also run QEMU.

First, download the QEMU Windows executable from here .
Then, download the latest version of EmuGUI from here .
Install QEMU. Please make sure to remember the QEMU path as you will need it later.
Extract EmuGUI. It's recommended to copy the EmuGUI folder onto the desktop.
Run main.exe from the EmuGUI folder.

Setting up EmuGUI

Now we have everything working but you must still check out settings.

Go to the Settings tab.
On the QEMU tab, browse for every single listed QEMU executable.
Have fun - or wait for the documentation to be more complete.