- QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to achieve good emulation speed. QEMU has two operating modes: Full system emulation.
- QEMU can be paired with KVM to run VMs at near native speed. This is accomplished by using hardware extensions such as: Intel VT-x or AMD-V.
- In this tutorial, we’ll see how to use QEMU to emulate an entire machine (CPU, memory, and devices) to run a popular Linux distro as a guest OS inside a Linux host.
- To give you an initial sneak peek into QEMU vs KVM’s highlights, QEMU runs on both Windows and Linux, but KVM runs only on Linux-based host OS.
- QEMU disk image utility for Windows. It is used for converting, creating, and consistency checking of various virtual disk formats.
- QEMU networking with VDE. Virtual Distributed Ethernet (VDE) provides is a virtual switch that can connect multiple virtual machines together, both local and remote.
- Installing another distro on Qemu. Enabling shared folder, auto-resize, and copy-paste in Qemu (optional but makes your VM experience smoother).
- Click here to download Qemu and download your desired .iso file. After installing Qemu, open Windows Powershell and type qemu-img.
- Boot QEMU instance with a live ISO image: qemu-system-i386 -hda image_name.img -cdrom os_image.iso -boot d.
- Let's explore the basics of QEMU -- installing it from source code, installing Ubuntu as a VM, atop, and finally setup networking under QEMU.