QEMU is a popular emulator used to run virtual machines on a variety of operating systems. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing QEMU on OpenBSD.
Before we begin, you need to make sure that your OpenBSD installation has the following packages installed:
You can install these packages using the following command:
sudo pkg_add git python
First, we need to download the QEMU source code from its website. You can do this by typing the following command in a terminal window:
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
This command will create a new directory named qemu in your current working directory, which contains the QEMU source code.
Next, we need to configure the QEMU source code to build it for OpenBSD. To do this, we need to enter the qemu directory and run the configure script with the following options:
cd qemu
./configure --target-list="i386-softmmu x86_64-softmmu mips64el-softmmu" --python=/usr/local/bin/python2
This command will generate the configuration files needed to build QEMU for OpenBSD.
Now that we have configured QEMU, we can build it by running the following command:
gmake
This command will compile QEMU and link all the necessary libraries.
After the build is completed, we can install QEMU by running the following command:
sudo gmake install
This command will install QEMU to the default location, which is /usr/local/bin.
To verify that QEMU is installed, you can check its version by running the following command:
qemu-system-i386 --version
This command should output the version number of QEMU that was installed.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed QEMU on OpenBSD. You can now use it to run virtual machines on your system.
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