QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is an open source machine emulator and virtualizer.
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qemu - fastest user-mode emulation platform?
I'm planning to run Linux under user-mode qemu but don't know which platform (eg x86, ppc etc) is the best to pick (performance wise).
The host is Linux x86-64 running in OpenVZ (so can't modify ...
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Where can one download PartEdit a partition listing tool for Microsoft OSes?
There are many references to this tool, which seems to be an advanced fdisk-like utility for microsoft OSes, available from Microsoft.
But searching support.microsoft.com provides now download! ...
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QEMU: How to find bottleneck in my virtual machine?
I am running an ubuntu virtual-machine on a 12.04 ubuntu server. Unfortunately the machine is extremly slow (just htop consumes 15%), even though having 8 cores etc.
Do you know a way to find the ...
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Problems switching to QEMU control panel with -nographics
It seems that the terminal does not recognise CTRL+ALT+2 when typed, so I don't know how to quit the QEMU emulation, or switch to the QEMU control panel.
I am running Mac OSX Lion, and I type
$ ...
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Network setup for web development on KVM guest with host using wifi
I've a laptop running Linux connected to a LAN using wifi. I've used virt-manager to create a KVM/QEMU VM and installed Ubuntu on that. As expected, it can connect to the Internet to download updates, ...
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Boot an existing GNU/Linux installation from a real HDD in Qemu-Windows
I'm now running windows 8 and I installed qemu-windows 1.3.1. I have two hard disks. When I try to boot existing Arch GNU/Linux from second disk using the command:
qemu-system-x86-64w -hda ...
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Use a real Windows hard-drive to boot off Qemu?
I'm looking for a Windows equivalent of Unixish:
qemu -hda /dev/sda
How does the Windows version of it look like, assuming the device I'd like to boot is under the drive letter E:? qemu -hda E: ...
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error in qemu monitor wavcapture with virsh
I have VM running on qemu-kvm. I am managing it with libvirt and command line tool virsh.
I want to record the audio output of the VM. Here is what I am trying -
virsh qemu-monitor-command -hmp ...
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How to boot a physical Windows partition with qemu?
I have gentoo and windows 7 installed alongside on my only hard drive. I want to start my windows install from within gentoo through qemu. Boot menu works fine but windows bluescreens on me soon after ...
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KVM and libvirt: How to configure a new disc device to an existing VM?
I've got an Ubuntu 9.04 server running two VM's. In /etc/libvirt/qemu/machine1.xml two disk devices are defined like this:
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator>
<disk ...
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debian installation without internet connection
I want to install some Debian distributions (Grip, Crush, Lenny...)
for arm / armel architectures.
www.emdebian.org/
I'm referring to this guide:
http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_arm_qemu.PHP
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QEMU within VirtualBox and bridged connections all the way down
I'm trying to get an ARM QEMU system out on my LAN. I tried running QEMU directly from Windows (Windows 7 x64), with success except I could not get a TAP adapter to bridge to my wireless connection. ...
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How can I get qemu's Ctrl+Alt keys working in -curses mode?
So here's the situation; I currently have qemu installed on an OpenBSD 5.3 snapshot. This is a console setup so I have to either run with -curses or -nographic. The problem here is that I'm having ...
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What VNC clients support qemu's audio extension?
I've read that
QEMU implements an extension for providing audio over a VNC connection
Unfortunately despite doing a lot of web searches and even installing some different VNC clients and ...
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Running FreedomBox in Qemu
I wanna run the latest FreedomBox image on my Ubuntu laptop.
The FreedomBox image is for DreamPlug, a 1.2 GHz Marvell Kirkwood 88F6281 SoC (ARM9E), and my Ubuntu is v12.10 (3.5.0-17-generic i686).
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Virtualized guest vs host CPU usage
I am using qemu with kvm as my hypervisor. I am running a gentoo guest on an ubuntu host. The guest is being given a single processor.
When I run a compute intensive job (say empty-loop) I get almost ...
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Making qemu-based Marss simulation deterministic
I am using Marss cycle-accurate simulator, which uses QEMU. It is a full system simulator and gives both user and kernel stats.
However, even if I take only user-stats, the statistics vary a lot ...
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Using VNC client to access local QEMU VM
I have installed Debian in a QEMU VM and am currently using the default QEMU Manager as the main display, since QEMU allows VNC as the main display.
I have a VNC client installed on my PC; can I view ...
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Trying to run QEMU with a file as hda
I'm trying to run QEMU and use a simple file on the host system as the guest's hard drive. Here's what I attempted so far:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/felix/vm/archlinux.img bs=1MB count=8192
8192+0 ...
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tunneling pptp vpn and network setup for bridged kvm running win7 enterprise on linux host
I'm using a win7 provided image from work to run inside qemu-kvm (libvirt/virt-manager).
The host is running Debian Wheezy.
The win7 vm wants to join the company AD and has certain tools to check if ...
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How do I bridge a connection from Wi-Fi to TAP on Mac OS X? (for the emulator QEMU)
I'm trying to setup a bridge between my Wi-Fi connection and an emulator (QEMU). I need a virtual machine to be on the same LAN as the host, with its own IP address.
QEMU requires using a TAP ...
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ssh on qemu via tap interface
My host OS is Ubuntu and guest is a Gentoo-based distribution virtualized by QEMU with
qemu-system-i386 -kernel kernel.img -append root=/dev/sda -hda Main.dd -hdb Local.dd -hdc Var.dd -net ...
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-kernel option like in QEMU for BOCHS
I am working on creating my own kernel using C/Asm. I have always used QEMU as my emulator mainly because I can specify -kernel and it boots the kernel directly without a boot loader. I wish to switch ...
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qemu -device testdev equivalent
I upgraded qemu from version 1.2.0 to 1.4.5, run regression test, and failed with the error message
-device testdev,chardev=testlog: Parameter 'driver' expects device type
After investigating the ...
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QEMU & libvirt: Dual screen VM?
I'm running a Windows 7 guest virtualised under QEMU and using libvirt on a Fedora 17 host, does anyone know if it's possible to create 2 video 'cards' (or a single dual-head) and a spice server for ...
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SD Card image not identified under qemu
I'm trying to create a system in which I can access the SD card (not as root file system). I've compiled a linux kernel with mmc support (static, not module), I can see the mmc controller gets ...
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VM using the hosts sound card
I've got a VM.
I want to make it used the sound card of the machine it is hosted on.
I added to my /etc/libvirt/myvm.xml:
<sound model='ac97'/>
and then did:
virsh #define myvm.xml
virsh ...
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Unable to edit KVM config file
I have installed KVM on my Ubuntu system. Using vmbuilder, I setup a linux VM. When I tried to access the console using virsh console vm command, I was getting an error. I tried to follow the solution ...
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How do I install Windows 8 (from an ISO) using Q (qemu)?
I have downloaded an ISO image of Windows 8 from Microsoft Dreamspark and I am on a 27" iMac without administrative privileges. I would like to install and run Windows. The only way I found to do so ...
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qemu: Set or force higher screen resolution than 640x480
I set up a virtual machine using qemu-system-arm (ARM emulation) running Debian squeeze. Now I have the problem that in the "Monitors" preferences, I can only select 640x480 as resolution.
Tried all ...
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Networked Parallel Port in Linux / KVM / QEMU
What I want to use is the "-parallel" tcp or udp option from KVM / QEMU, but I don't seem to find any server for this client. I don't serve a printer but a hardware dongle.
I checked ser2net, which ...
