wa4chq Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 (edited) 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 Edited August 16, 2018 by wa4chq 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 virt-manager is much easier to use. Just follow this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/libvirt 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted August 16, 2018 Author Share Posted August 16, 2018 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.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 These are just images from the net as I am at work right now and servers are at home 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted August 18, 2018 Author Share Posted August 18, 2018 These are just images from the net as I am at work right now and servers are at home thanks SB...I just saw this. I will look to see if the Slack packages have virt-manager....I'm sure they do.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Here are shots from servers: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Also, I connect to these over ssh to my headless servers but you can also do these locally on your machine as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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