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Ubuntu install on QEMU Windows

Computer/Programming 2009/05/21 00:53 by Shinnara

I installed QEMU on Windows XP. QEMU works very wel on my about 5 years old notebook.

To install Ubuntu on QEMU, I downloaded Ubuntu iso file.

The first step is to make hard disk image.

C:\dev\virtual\qemu-0.9.0-windows>qemu-img create -f qcow ubuntu.img 5G
Formating 'ubuntu.img', fmt=qcow, size=5242880 kB

the last argument 5G is the image size.

And next,

C:\dev\virtual\qemu-0.9.0-windows>qemu -L . -cdrom c:\download\ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso -hda ubuntu.img -m 256 -boot d

"-m 256" means memory is 256MB.
"-boot d" : boot is done by secondary master.

Ubuntu installation is starting.

If you installed QEMU Acceleration, you can add this argument for the fast operation.

-kernel-kqemu

Useful References:

[Install QEMU on Windows]