QEMU is a free and open-source hardware virtualization software that allows you to create and run virtual machines on desktop and server computers. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install QEMU on MXLinux Latest.
It is a good practice to update your system before installing new software. Open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
This command will update and upgrade all the packages on your system to the latest versions.
You can install QEMU using the following command:
sudo apt install qemu
This command will download and install QEMU on your system.
You can verify the QEMU installation by running the following command:
qemu-system-x86_64 --version
This command will display the installed version of QEMU on your system.
Now that QEMU is installed, you can start using it to create and run virtual machines. You can create a new virtual machine using the qemu-img
command. For example, the following command will create a new virtual machine with a 10GB hard disk:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk.img 10G
You can then start the virtual machine by running the following command:
qemu-system-x86_64 -hda disk.img -boot d -cdrom /path/to/ubuntu.iso
This command will start the virtual machine with the disk.img
file as the hard disk and boot from the Ubuntu ISO image.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install QEMU on MXLinux Latest. We also provided you with some basic commands to get started with QEMU. QEMU is a powerful software that allows you to create and run virtual machines on your desktop or server computer, and it is definitely worth exploring further.
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