How do I define a new virtual machine in QEMU?

Question

I have installed QEMU for fedora via:

yum install qemu

Now how do I start it ? I mean how do I define a new virtual machine, like I do in VMware? Also I don't see any icon made for QEMU.

Did you try running the qemu command (in some terminal)? Did you read the output of man qemu? — Basile Starynkevitch, Commented Jul 15, 2013 at 7:43
@BasileStarynkevitch yeah. Isn't there any graphical interface like VMware ? I see only the terminal that looks for the boot image — Suhail Gupta, Commented Jul 15, 2013 at 8:16

deagh · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-15 08:10:45Z

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First you have to create a virtual disk

qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk01.img 10G

After that you can start your virtual system

qemu -hda disk01.img -m 256

answered Jul 15, 2013 at 8:10

deagh

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aah..can you please explain these attributes ? -f qcow2 disk01.img 10G
– Suhail Gupta
Commented Jul 15, 2013 at 8:18
-f qcow2 = define a new file/virtual hard disk with qcow2 format and the size of 10GB (you can find more information about qcow at wikipedia -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qcow)
– deagh
Commented Jul 15, 2013 at 8:21

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