System emulation using qemu: hardware pass-through and acceleration

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We went through many qemu features so far: Raspberry PI emulation, EFI and MS-DOS machines, and finally virtual network cards in Windows 3.11 and virtual networks. We are nearing the end of this series, so this time we will cover a very important aspect of virtual machines: hardware pass-through and acceleration.