Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Create a QEMU disk image

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Images

1. create a blank disk image
qemu-img create -f qcow2 winxp.img 3G

2. install a guest OS into the bank disk image (from ISO file or CD-ROM)
qemu -m 256 -hda winxp.img -cdrom winxpsp2.iso -boot d
or
qemu -m 256 -hda winxp.img -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d

more info:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Images

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