[Qemu-devel] Qemu tutorial

[Qemu-devel] Qemu tutorial

[Daniel Carrera]

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Hello all,

As promised, here is a tutorial I would recommend to get people started.
It's short and sweet:

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Tutorial: Full system emulation under Linux
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Alright, you have qemu installed and now you want to run a client OS
under qemu. Follow these steps:

1) You need a blank disk image. This is like adding a blank disk to the
virtual computer that qemu creates. Use this command to create a 2Gb
blank disk image:

qemu-img create -f qcow c.img 2G

The last argument is the size of the image (2G). For more information on
creating a blank image, see <a href="#SEC15">3.6 Disk Images</a>.

2) When you install an OS on a real computer you normall boot an
install CD. We'll do the same with the virtual computer. Put the CD
(e.g. Windows install CD) on the CD drive.

qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda c.img -m 256 -boot d

This boots from the CD ROM (-boot d) using 256MB of RAM (-m 256) using
c.img as /dev/hda (-hda c.img).

Now you can install the client OS just as you would in a real computer.
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Cheers,
Daniel.
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu tutorial

[Daniel Carrera]

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A quick FYI. I mentioned that on another list someone explained that I
was supposed to create a blank disk image first and then boot from a CD
ROM. I then asked there "do you know how to do that?". His response was
"No, I don't... I switched to vmware".

The point of this is that I'm not the only person who can't figure this
out from the documentation. You won't hear much about this because
people who can't get started are not likely to join this list and ask.
Please do use a quick tutorial like the one I wrote.

Cheers,
Daniel.

On Wed, 2006-05-07 at 22:49 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> As promised, here is a tutorial I would recommend to get people started.
> It's short and sweet:
> 
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-- 
http://opendocumentfellowship.org
  "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
  unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself.
  Therefore all progress depends on unreasonable men."
        -- George Bernard Shaw

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu tutorial

[Larry Brigman]

On 7/5/06, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera@zmsl.com> wrote:
> A quick FYI. I mentioned that on another list someone explained that I
> was supposed to create a blank disk image first and then boot from a CD
> ROM. I then asked there "do you know how to do that?". His response was
> "No, I don't... I switched to vmware".
>
> The point of this is that I'm not the only person who can't figure this
> out from the documentation. You won't hear much about this because
> people who can't get started are not likely to join this list and ask.
> Please do use a quick tutorial like the one I wrote.
>

I seem to have a similar problem when trying to get a image networked correctly.