QEMU (Quick EMUlator) is a type – 2 or hosted hypervisor. Other examples of hosted hypervisors are VMware Player, Oracle VirtualBox & Parallels Desktop for Mac. QEMU, released under GPLv2, supports both machine emulation as well as virtualization. Hence, it is capable to run different Operating Systems and Programs on supported architectures. It is written by Fabrice Bellard. At the time of writing the article, the latest stable release of QEMU is 4.1.0. In this article, we would discuss how to setup Virtual Machine using QEMU in Ubuntu distribution.
- For Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, and PopOS: sudo apt-get install qemu-system qemu-utils python3 python3-pip; For Arch and Arch based distros: sudo pacman -S qemu python python-pip; For Void: sudo xbps-install -Su qemu python3 python3-pip; For openSUSE Tumbleweed: sudo zypper in qemu-tools qemu-kvm qemu-x86 qemu-audio-pa python3-pip.
- QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. It is free and open source tool that allows users to create and manage Virtual machines inside the host operating system. The resources of the host operating system, such as Hard drive, RAM, Processor, will be divided and shared by the guest operating systems (Virtual machines).
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First, we will install QEMU and create a qcow2 disk image. Then, we would attach a CD-ROM Skyrim player exclusive armor. (ISO Image) to the disk image to install an Operating System.
Note: Following operations would require you to have superuser privileges. In case you don’t have one, then contact your System Administrator for assistance.
Install QEMU in Ubuntu
Since, QEMU package is already available in standard Ubuntu repository. Therefore, we would update the Ubuntu repository first to make the latest version of the package available. Thereafter, we would install the package and related dependencies (if any). So, open a terminal and issue the following –
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Create a disk image for Virtual Machine using qemu-img
Now, we will create a disk image using command-line utility qemu-img. With qemu-img, we can manage our disk images offline.
where,
-f is used for file format (raw, qcow2 etc.)
For instance,
This would create a file test-img.qcow2 of size 5 GB.
Install an Operating System in Disk image
Next, we need to install an Operating System in the disk image. So, we will attach an installation media (ISO image) to the Virtual Machine. Hence, issue the following in terminal –
where,
-cdrom is for iso_image,
-cpu host is to emulate the host processor. There is a list of supported architectures available – qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu ?
-enable-kvm starts QEMU in KVM mode,
-m is for memory (RAM),
-smp is to specify the number of cores a VM could use.
For instance,
Now, install an Operating System of your choice in disk image.
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Run Virtual Machine (disk_image) through QEMU
To run a Virtual Machine, above code needs to be modified a bit. Aster v7 x6 keygen 2017. We would just remove the CD-ROM attached.
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For instance,
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In conclusion, we have discussed how to setup Virtual Machine using QEMU in Ubuntu distribution.
Note: For i386 architecture, we can use qemu-system-i386 command in place of qemu-system-x86_64.
To enable audio in QEMU Virtual Machine, follow the article here.