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Boot up Fuchsia VM without having to compile anything
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  1. Download the latest version of the Fuchsia IDK (it doesn't matter whether you choose Linux or MacOS).
  2. Unzip it, and go to device and choose either qemu-x64.json or qemu-arm64.json, depending on which platform you'll like to emulate.
  3. Open up your chosen .json file and copy everything after gs:// under "images_url". Then, paste into your browser, storage.googleapis.com + whatever came after it.
  4. Wait for the download to finish, then unzip it into a directory
  5. Create a tap interface and either bridge your ethernet or Wifi to it (for Windows, I've had success with OpenVPN and sharing my Wifi with my TAP interface in the Control Panel; for MacOS, you can use tuntaposx; for Linux, you can find instructions online).
  6. Convert the storage-full.blk to a qcow2 file with qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 storage-full.blk storage-full.qcow2
  7. Resize the qcow2 file with qemu-img resize -f qcow2 storage-full.qcow2 +5G
  8. Execute qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel fuchsia/qemu-kernel.kernel -initrd fuchsia/zircon-a.zbi -drive file=fuchsia/storage-full.qcow2 -machine q35 -cpu Haswell,+smap,-fsgsbase -m 5G -netdev tap,id=mynet0,ifname=tap-test,script=no,downscript=no -device e1000,netdev=mynet0. If you absolutely can not use HAXM, Hyper-V, KVM, etc., you can add -smp 4 -accel tcg,thread=multi. Otherwise, add enable-+ your accelerator of choice.
  9. Enjoy!
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