Steffen's Knowledge Base

Created at: 2024-08-20 23:11:46

Last modified at: 2024-10-12 23:40:39

Author: Steffen Rick

Qemu

Table of contents (autogenerated)

Tries to shed some light on the many startup otions of qemu.

Volume creation

qemu-img create -f qcow2 freebsd-upgrade.qcow 40G

Boot install media

# NAT'ed nic
qemu-system-x86_64 -hda freebsd-upgrade.qcow -cdrom ../IMGs/FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso -boot d -m 4096 -enable-kvm -nic user

# Bridged nic
qemu-system-x86_64 -hda freebsd-upgrade.qcow -cdrom ../IMGs/FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso -boot d -m 4096 -enable-kvm -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no

Boot installed system

qemu-system-x86_64 -hda freebsd-upgrade.qcow -m 4096 -enable-kvm -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no -display none -vnc :0 -smp 8,cores=4,maxcpus=8