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QEMU

QEMU

  1. Installation

    # @HOST
sudo pacman -S qemu qemu-arch-extra samba openssh

  2. Creating image

    # @HOST
qemu-img create -f qcow2 [IMAGE-NAME] 15G
    • qemu-img: It’s the disk image utility provided by QEMU;
    • create: Indicates that we want to create new disk image, you can add options to enable or disable features;
    • -f qcow2: Specifies the image format; usually, you want ‘raw’ or ‘qcow2’. Raw images are fast, but it uses all the determined size at once; on the other hand, qcow2 is a little bit slower, but it increases the image size based on VM usage with the limit being the size given at creation;
    • [IMAGE-NAME]: This command will end up with an image file, and here is the name that we assign; feel free to assign whatever name you want to it;
    • 15G: The image size.

      I'll recommend using atleast 30G

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