Re: Tutorial for setting up desktop VM using qemu-system-x86_64

[BERBAR Florian]

Hello,

There is a lot of comprehensive information on the official WIKI page 
(https://wiki.qemu.org). For example, the following page gives you a 
basic command line to boot a guest system with "qemu-system-x86_64": 
https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/PC

Regards,

On 10/26/22 01:12, Albin "a12l" Otterhäll wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to learn more about QEMU by creating a desktop VM using the 
> `qemu-system-x86_64` command, the goal is to forcing myself to read 
> and understand QEMU's documentation. Today I'm only able to install 
> QEMU and libvirtd on my system and get VMs running with the help of 
> virt-mananger, but nothing more than that.
>
> My concrete goal for now is to create a x86_64 desktop QEMU VM using 
> KVM and for it to integrate nicely with my Linux host system on my 
> x86_64 machine without using `virsh` or virt-manager.
>
> I did find the reference documentation listing all(?) options to the 
> `qemu-system-x86_64` command[0], but while reading it I realize that 
> much of the information flies over my head.
>
> The command that virt-manager generates for one of my VMs doesn't make 
> me much smarter, especially when I can run the command manually in the 
> shell...
>
> Is there a good in-depth tutorial that explains what options you need 
> to set on the `qemu-system-x86_64` command to get a x86_64 VM running 
> on a x86_64 machine using KVM, and what those options mean? I don't 
> have any deeper knowledge about the kernel; just that it's there 
> drivers and file systems go.
>
> [0] https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/invocation.html
>
> Thanks!