And that's where system emulation comes in. The open-source PC emulator QEMU is included by default in most mainline Linux ...

In most cases, SystemVerilog/UVM is used to generate stimulus which is then transferred to either a (SystemC based) virtual platform or an emulation platform. In this scenario, the DPI is used to ...

If you haven't guessed by its name, it uses the QEMU emulator and virtualizer on the backend, and that's what will be running ...