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qemu magic! another wow moment


wa4chq

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Greetings....

 

I've been wanting to do VirtualBox again but didn't want to try and install it with the Slack pkgs....so I remembered some of you using QEMU. I searched the Slackware 14.1 repository, downloaded and installed qmenu and aqemu. Aqemu is a graphical interface to QEMU and KVM emulators. I made a directory called "virtual" and copied a few iso's I had to that new directory. Back at the terminal I entered "agemu" and viola! I'm seeing something similar to virtualbox. Only problem was I hadn't a clue as to what needed to be done in order to get a virtual machine up and running. So I searched youtube.....one of the hits brought me to

. In his example he doesn't use aqemu. What he did was:

qemu -hda virtualdisk.img -cdrom *.iso -boot d

I tried that but get an error message saying I didn't have qemu! I did have qemu-kvm, so I tried:

qemu-kvm -hda virtualdisk.img -cdrom *.iso -boot d

And voila DSL booted up! Cool!! Now I just need to learn how to get control of my mouse when I end a session! lol

 

update: Just discovered how to get control of my mouse.....

alt-ctrl-g

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virt-manager is much easier to use.

 

Just follow this https://wiki.archlin...dex.php/libvirt

I just had a look, boy...that didn't look as easy as qemu-kvm...... I'll look at it again....

 

Actually virt-manager runs all the long qemu commands for you. It is similar to how virtualbox looks and acts.

 

Its basically a gui for qemu commands

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These are just images from the net as I am at work right now and servers are at home

 

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thanks SB...I just saw this. I will look to see if the Slack packages have virt-manager....I'm sure they do....
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Also, I connect to these over ssh to my headless servers but you can also do these locally on your machine as well.

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