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creating qemu images and running virtual machine
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Create image

  • 20G is size of your image, or hard disk for virtual machine
  • virtual.img is the image file
qemu-img create -f qcow2 virtual.img 20G

Booting img for first time for installation

  • 2G is RAM for virtual machine
qemu-system-aarch64 -boot d -cdrom isoimage.iso virtual.img -m 2G -enable-kvm -machine q35,accel=kvm

Using the virtual machine

qemu-system-x86_64 -boot d virtual.img -m 2G -enable-kvm -machine q35,accel=kvm -cpu host
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