# Running Mender client on a cloud-based virtual machine **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [July 5, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/running-mender-client-on-a-cloud-based-virtual-machine/3830 "2021-07-05T10:42:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
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I haven’t heard about anyone using it like this (but I can’t say it is like that). But, on the other side, I can confirm people successfully implemented QEMU ready images using mender from a Debian-based systems and a Yocto-based systems. These links could be helpful: > [@QEMU, the FAST! processor emulator (Ubuntu)](https://hub.mender.io/t/qemu-the-fast-processor-emulator-ubuntu/1550): > > Board description QEMU (short for Quick Emulator ) is a free and open-source emulator that performs hardware virtualization. QEMU is a hosted virtual machine monitor, it emulates the machine’s processor through dynamic and provides a set of different hardware and device models for the machine, enabling it to run a variety of guest operating systems. It also can be used with [KVM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine) to run virtual machines at near-native speed (by taking advantage of hardware extensions such as [Intel VT-x](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization)). QEM… > [@QEMU, the FAST! processor emulator (deprecated)](https://hub.mender.io/t/qemu-the-fast-processor-emulator/420/1): > > IMPORTANT: This tutorial has been mostly superseded by [Testing Mender with QEMU ARM64](https://hub.mender.io/t/testing-mender-with-qemu-arm64/8095). So unless you have very specific requirements, use the QEMU ARM64 tutorial. Introduction The [Yocto Project](https://yoctoproject.org) consists of recipes, dependencies and metadata to instruct the build system how to build software packages for installation into a target embedded operating system. The official [Mender documentation](https://docs.mender.io/) explains how Mender works. This is a board-specific complement to the official documentation for the QEM… --- _[View the full topic](https://hub.mender.io/t/running-mender-client-on-a-cloud-based-virtual-machine/3830)._