Qemu is a cross-platform processor Emulator.
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How do I install qemu?
How do I install the qemu command?
I type qemu and press tab and I get a list of several binaries installed.
qemu-alpha
qemu-arm
...
qemu-x86_64
but no qemu.
I type man qemu and it returns the ...
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How can I ctrl-alt-f# to get to a TTY in a QEMU session?
I'm doing an install via testdrive using QEMU/KVM and I would like to check the log files during the installation, however I can't figure out a way to send Ctrl-Alt-F1 and other F keys to the ...
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How do I deploy a virtualized server on a headless machine running 12.04 Server?
There is so much different information out there about setting up a virtual machine but I'm at a lost where to start. My fundamental question is:
How do I virtually deploy a web server (complete with ...
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How can I run Unity 11.04 in qemu? [closed]
I want to try Ubuntu Natty with the Unity Desktop and the Compiz Support from the PPA in qemu. But I can't get the Graphic Support to run Unity.
Is it possible to get compositing running with qemu?
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How do I mount a qcow2 disk image?
I have a QEMU virtual machine that uses a qcow2 disk image.
How can I mount its filesystem without powering on the virtual machine?
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Can I run Ubuntu in JavaScript (Linux emulator)?
Is it possible to run Ubuntu in JSLinux ?
Here is today's Slashdot post about JSLinux.
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KVM kernel module error
I just installed qemu and ran
qemu-system-i386 -hda ubuntu32 -cdrom ~/Downloads/ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso -m 1024 -boot d
and got some errors
Could not access KVM kernel module: No such file ...
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How do I run qemu with 64bit processor on a 64bit machine?
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit and recently installed qemu-kvm. Now I want to start a 64bit live CD using qemu -m 512 -boot d -cdrom archlinux-2010.05-netinstall-x86_64.iso This loads the image and I ...
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Qemu KVM VNC Support
Do I need to install a special package to get the VNC support ?
I installed:
sudo apt-get install kvm qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-extras
Everything works fine, I only get no VNC server up and running, ...
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kqemu ppa for 10.04
Where is a good (working, no dependency issues) PPA for qemu-kqemu and the kqemu module builder for Ubuntu 10.04?
A good PPA from which to obtain kqemu for 10.04 from would be one that has a working ...
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Running 64 bit Ubuntu distribution from 32 bit Ubuntu
Related to this question How do I run qemu with 64bit processor on a 64bit machine?, I'm trying to run latest ubuntu 11.10 64bit distribution under Ubuntu 11.04 32 bit using qemu on a core2duo (64 bit ...
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What are practical advantages of using linux-image-virtual kernel?
Ubuntu provides an alternative kernel package - linux-image-virtual, that is supposed to be optimized for use in virtual machines. What are actual optimizations and how much faster/smaller/better is ...
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How to resize virtual machine disk?
Is there anyway to resize a virtual machine's disk? Say increasing the disk size from 32GB to 64GB. I am running KVM/Qemu on Ubuntu server 11.10 64bit. Thanks.
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How do I convert a multiple-part VMDK disk image to qcow2?
I have a VMDK disk image that exists as multiple files:
2.0G guest-s001.vmdk 1.8G guest-s003.vmdk 128K guest-s005.vmdk
2.0G guest-s002.vmdk 1.7G guest-s004.vmdk 4.0K guest.vmdk
When running ...
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How can I run qemu with KVM over ssh?
When I run qemu -cpu kvm64 -snapshot -hda binary.img at a local console, the image boots and runs as I expect. However, when I log in via ssh -C -X, I see:
$ qemu -cpu kvm64 -snapshot -hda binary.img ...
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Is there any prebuilt QEMU Ubuntu image(32bit) online?
I am playing with QEMU. Here I found some prebuilt OS images:
http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/starting-images.html
But they are all for 64 bit system while my system ...
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Which is best to use on a HEADLESS Server that is going to be use as virtualization host? KVM / XEN / QEMU?
Okay, The main purpose is to learn about virtualization and play around with it. However, I have a problem of determining which is best for a headless server. I want to run several Linux distributions ...
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Is my VM using KVM or QEMU?
After installing Ubuntu 11.10 and copying my KVM images which were created on Ubuntu 11.04 over to the new system, I notice that Virt-manager says it's using QEMU and not KVM. Also when running virsh ...
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Convert dd image file to iso
I've a disk dump image (.dd) of an old version of X-Linux (X-Linux R41).
Is there any chance to successfully convert this .dd image to a .iso? I've tried this conversion through a forensic tool, but ...
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Portable virtual machine with preinstalled Ubuntu for Windows?
I download "Damn Small Linux (DSL)" distribution from (http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/damnsmalllinux/current/dsl-4.4.10-embedded.zip) and this distribution has a very interesting version called ...
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QEMU hardware error 0x80000021
I'm trying to run Hiren's BootCD on QEMU but it throws a hardware error 0x80000021 on a Core 2 Duo, maybe there is some parameter missing to fix that.
$ kvm --version
QEMU emulator version 1.0 ...
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How to enable RDP on KVM
I installed KVM on a ubuntu natty server. I created a Windows XP Pro virtual machine that works perfectly and catch up with VNC, follow the setup string:
<graphics type='vnc' port='5900' ...
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Loading KVM AMD module fails
I want to use QEMU+KVM on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric but virt-manager warns that KVM is not loaded and performance will suffer.
The problem may depend on the fact that
sudo modprobe kvm-amd
fails with ...
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Compiling qemu with spice support
I am trying to compile qemu 1.3 with ubuntu 12.04 with spice enabled, I get this error:
ERROR
ERROR: User requested feature spice
ERROR: configure was not able to find it
ERROR
I have read around ...
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virt-manager USB 2.0 problem
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 64bit with QEMU/KVM & virt-manager 0.9.4 (latest compiled from source) installed
my problem is that all guest windows machines does not recognize usb2.0 ports:
windows xp ...
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How do I connect to my running VM via virsh?
My VM has already been started via virsh start chameleon.ootbdev. When I do a virsh console chameleon.ootbdev I get the following output:
Connected to domain chameleon.ootbdev
Escape character is ^]
...
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How to I prevent the screen from locking when I want a virtual machine to ungrab my mouse?
This happens in both KVM with virt-manager as well as VirtualBox.
The key combo to ungrab the mouse from KVM is Control-Option-L on my Apple MacBook Pro keyboard. Option on Mac keyboards is mapped ...
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How to get faster graphics in KVM? VNC is painfully slow with Haiku OS guest, Spice won't install and SDL doesn't work
I've been coming up to speed on the Haiku operating system, an Open Source clone of BeOS 5 Pro.
I'm using an Apple MacBook Pro as my development machine. Apple's BootCamp BIOS does not support more ...
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Upgrade to qemu 1,3 on ubuntu 12.10
Can I upgrade qemu 1.2 to qemu 1.3 on ubuntu 12.10?
If Yes, how do we do that?
Current version:
kvm -version: QEMU emulator version 1.2.0 (qemu-kvm-1.2.0+noroms-0ubuntu2.12.10.2, Debian), Copyright ...
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Upgrade to qemu 1.3 on ubuntu 12.10
Can I upgrade qemu 1.2 to qemu 1.3 on ubuntu 12.10? If Yes, how?
kvm -version:
QEMU emulator version 1.2.0 (qemu-kvm-1.2.0+noroms-0ubuntu2.12.10.2, Debian), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
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How to create and export a vmware image using vmbuilder
I've been using vmbuilder to build kvm images as such:
vmbuilder kvm ubuntu \
-v \
--suite=precise \
--libvirt=qemu:///system \
--arch=amd64 \
--cpus=2 \
--mem=1024 \
...
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Is it normal for a 14GB VHD file to be converted to a 100GB+ BIN file?
i want to convert a vhd-file to vdi and found a manual which says i have to convert the vhd first to bin. But qemu-img creates a 130GB file (even if theres not enough space on disk) from the 14GB ...
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qemu-system-arm fails with “Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!” [closed]
I am trying to build an arm rootfs using ubuntu 12.04 (but I get the same problem also with 11.10).
I am following this ...
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how do I bring a vm created with testdrive under kvm or qemu?
After installing oneiric with testdrive, how do I bring it under aqemu or kvm?
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How to create a 2GB Linux X86 Disk Image?
I have created a disk image which when I load it to /mnt/linux86 folder using the following command gives me these folders:
backprop bin boot dev etc home lib lib32 lib64 lost+found
media ...
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I can't add “<domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>”
ubuntu 13.04
qemu$ virsh version
Compiled against library: libvirt 1.0.2
Using library: libvirt 1.0.2
Using API: QEMU 1.0.2
Running hypervisor: QEMU 1.4.0
i want to use "Pass-through of arbitrary ...
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mount windows 8 with qemu
I have two OS, ubuntu 12 and Windows 8, installed separately. I installed qemu to be able to mount Windows 8 under ubuntu. The link I visited on the web talk about directly installing the windows iso ...
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Copy files to guest in QEMU
Is there any chance to successfully setup a way to let QEMU copy files from the host to the guest system?
I've already tryed with SSH (as explained here) but I can't connect to the guest.
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How to modify qemu-kvm bios.bin?
I know qemu-kvm use SeaBIOS as PC BIOS. I just want let vm created by qemu-kvm show a custom JPEG image during bootup. How to modify the file bios.bin?
I see the following command on Coreboot ...
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Rootstock not working
Im getting this error:
hello, Im having some trouble with roostock, the error Im getting is :
./rootstock: 1000: ./rootstock: cannot create /tmp/tmp.C7sAyhcAxf/tmpmount/etc/fstab: Directory ...
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Is it possible: MAAS+Juju -> QEmu?
Hey there everyone ...
I've been playing around in a virtual environment with MAAS and Juju lately on 12.10 (7 VMs total), setting up little clusters using 12.04. It's amazing.
I noticed that there ...
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Not able to login after installing vncserver
So I installed vncserver and vncviewer and was trying to run virtual machine through qemu. Last night it was all good, now when i try to login a black screen comes in and I am again on the login, even ...
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System image to be loaded to QEMU [duplicate]
Is there any way to take a snapshot of my current system and load it on another computer to QEMU?
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“autoreconf: not found” error during making qemu-1.4.0
I was ./configure'd the qemu-1.4.0 and during make it cause:
(cd /home/amin/Simulate/qemu-1.4.0/pixman; autoreconf -v --install)
/bin/sh: 1: autoreconf: not found
make: *** ...
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How to run Ubuntu 12.10 ARM HF on a Ubuntu 12.04.2 amd64 host with Qemu 1.3?
I tried to follow this tutorial over here: http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/
All the time I get missing initrd.
http://i.imgur.com/vQ0nw.png
any idea?
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Strange device nodes
I have been having bizarre issues. It started when I decided to install Scientific Linux Fermi 6.3 and dual boot it. First I was going to burn it to usb, but that was taking too long and I'm ...
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libvirt with SPICE on 12.04 amd64
I'm using 12.04 LTS amd64 as a KVM host + desktop. I have a Windows 7 ultimate 64bit guest on this host. The installation worked perfect with the default (VNC display) settings. Everything also works ...
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How do I get KVM vm to use SEABios and Not Bochs in 12.04
I have a VM image that runs fine under KVM/qemu on RHEL 6.2, but does not work on Ubuntu 12.04. Have traced down the reason to the BIOS used. RHEL is using SEABios which populates DMI fields which ...
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How to move vm manually from one host to another host without shared storage [closed]
How to move guest OS manually from one Ubuntu server host to another Ubuntu server host without shared storage using Qemu/kvm
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The screen keeps flickering when running qemu KVM through ssh -X from ubuntu
I'm trying to run a qemu-kvm virtual machine on a (headless) ubuntu server. To install the virtual machine, I need to ssh -X onto the server from a desktop and run the following command:
...
