RedBox PC Emulator

RedBox PC Emulator is a QEMU-based emulator for Android. It currently supports x86 emulation for android devices.

RedBox PC Emulator is an Android virtual machine and PC emulator powered by QEMU 11.1.1.

The project is focused on bringing a modern, customizable PC emulation experience to Android with a simple interface, configurable virtual hardware, and an optimized QEMU backend.

RedBox is currently under active development.

RedBox PC Emulator allows you to create and run virtual machines directly on Android.

The project currently focuses primarily on:

x86 / x86_64 PC emulation Windows guests QEMU TCG emulation Custom VM configuration Touchscreen mouse controls Physical volume-button mouse controls Disk image and ISO support Performance tuning Modern Android UI RedBox is being developed with the long-term goal of providing a powerful Android VM experience while keeping VM configuration easy to understand.

⚙️ Emulator Engine RedBox currently uses:

QEMU 11.1.1

The QEMU engine is built for:

Android ARM64 host devices x86_64 guest emulation SDL2 display output TCG/JIT CPU translation RedBox integrates QEMU directly into the Android application through native C/C++ and JNI.

🖥️ Guest Operating Systems RedBox is designed to eventually support many operating systems.

Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 / 8.1 Windows 10 Windows 11 Linux distributions Other x86 operating systems ARM / ARM64 guests Guest compatibility depends on the selected virtual hardware and QEMU configuration.

✨ Features x86/x86_64 PC emulation QEMU 11.1.1 engine Multi-Threaded TCG (MTTCG) Configurable RAM and CPU cores Multiple CPU models Configurable TCG translation cache PC/i440FX and Q35 machine types QCOW2, VHD and RAW disk images Create new virtual RAW disks ISO/CD-ROM support Secondary driver ISO support IDE, AHCI and VirtIO Block storage Standard VGA Bochs display VirtIO VGA VirGL/OpenGL foundation RTL8139 and E1000 networking User-mode networking (NAT/SLIRP) Shared virtual disk support Shared folder support Android Storage Access Framework support Touchscreen/mouse input Keyboard input Saved VM configurations Dark Android interface 💻 Recommended Windows Configuration RedBox v0.1.0 has two recommended configurations depending on the display adapter you use.

Standard VGA Configuration Recommended for compatibility and a simple Windows setup.

Setting Recommended RAM 4096 MB CPU Core 2 Duo or Nehalem CPU Cores 4 MTTCG Enabled TCG Cache 256 MB Machine PC / i440FX Disk IDE Display Standard VGA Network RTL8139 Network Mode User (NAT) VirtIO Configuration Recommended when using VirtIO VGA and VirtIO drivers.

Setting Recommended RAM 4096 MB CPU Core 2 Duo or Nehalem CPU Cores 4 MTTCG Enabled TCG Cache 256 MB Machine PC / i440FX Disk VirtIO Block Display VirtIO VGA Network RTL8139 Network Mode User (NAT) Note: VirtIO Block requires the appropriate VirtIO storage driver inside Windows. When installing Windows onto a VirtIO Block disk, you may need to attach the VirtIO driver ISO and load the storage driver during Windows Setup.

License

GPL-3.0