Questions tagged [qemu]
QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization.
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USB passthrough in Android emulator on MacOS M1 failing to acquire exclusive access
I am trying to get my Android emulator to see the Wi-Fi dongle or my Ethernet dongle connected over USB to the Macbook Pro M1. I tried the following methods:
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./emulator -avd MyTestEmulator -...
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QEMU, Debian VM doesn't boot after shutdown on M1
On M1, I 'm trying to run a Debian 12 VM.
After the installation process, whether configured using a deb_preseed.cfg (within the Automated Install) or through the GUI configuration, it fails to run (...
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How to start a qemu virtual machine and from the host, execute some commands to finally shut it down
I'm deploying virtual machines with qemu. Installed OS is Debian with linux kernel debian 6.8.11-amd64.
The way I deploy a vm is directly with qemu-system command (i.e no vm manager).
In a command ...
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libvirtd not starting after unsuccessful GPU passthrough
I attempted to follow this guide on Ubuntu 22.04:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GPU_passthrough_with_libvirt_qemu_kvm
I didn't need to change my BIOS or my Kernel, and I skipped the step involving the ...
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OpenRC not starting services
For testing purposes, I need a quick way to generate a root filesystem to use for booting freshly built Linux kernels. I've been doing this by using Docker to create a filesystem and then transferring ...
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Can I use $USER enviroment variable inside qemu.config?
I am installing my first KVM/QEMU based virt manager.
As per the instructions on Arch Wiki, one needs to change the config file of qemu.config.
sudo vim /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
I used vim to edit the ...
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How do I properly chroot from a amd64 artix VM into a mounted aarch64 armtix OS image?
I want to chroot into an armtix (aarch64) OS image inside an artix VM.
I copied qemu-aarch64-static into the mounted /usr/bin
and then tried to chroot into the mounted image.
It works, however, most ...
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How can I create a VM in virt-manager that can access the internet through the host but can't even see the host or other devices on the LAN?
I want to be able to create multiple VMs for testing purposes -- questionable websites, files that could be infected with a virus, etc.
I want to make sure these VMs should be able to access the ...
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How to place a qemu vm in background (it means that it should run between the processes but nothing should be shown on the screen)
I would like to run the qemu vm that you see below runs between the processes,so I don't want to see any monitor,graphic,terminal window,nothing should be shown on the screen.
/usr/local/bin/qemu-...
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Understanding the flash translation layer - SSD emulation
Can anyone suggest me a blog/article on how to get an NVMe simulation environment up and running? I'm basically looking at using NVMe as an emulated device in Qemu and tracing the read, write and stat ...
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Use .qcow2 VM file format for VirtualBox
VirtualBox, supports several other file formats, but no .qcow2 format for the time being.
The Virtmanager, in turn supports the current open source .qcow2 format, but not the outdated .qcow format.
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Limiting the file size of .qcow2 files [closed]
Qcow 2 files are an open source file format for virtual machines. In my opinion, unlike .vmdk files, they do not offer the option of specifying a maximum file size. This means that they can constantly ...
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Converting a virtual machine a standalone directory hosted on Ubuntu
A software platform I'm responsible for requires a minimal Ubuntu distribution with software that is partially integrated with the OS and uses TTY terminals. We've typically contained the OS in a ...
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How to let two qemu instances access each other under the same network? The host is Windows 11
The first instance is:
.\qemu-system-x86_64.exe -cpu IvyBridge -smp 4 -m 4096 -nic user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:10022-:22 D:\vm1.qcow2 -accel whpx
So the network backend is user mode network of qemu, ...
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QEMU/KVM: capturing keyboard shortcuts by the guest operating system
I have installed QEMU/KVM on my Ubuntu and created a new VM.
When trying to switch apps using Alt+Tab or "Show Applications" using Windows key it is captured and interpreted by the host OS ...
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