Re: Installing guest OS in qemu-kvm via aqemu [RESOLVED]

Rich Shepard <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:08:36 -0700 (PDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Rich Shepard wrote:

>  What I cannot find on the aqemu pages or with my Google searches is how
> to install the guest OS from the optical drive into the VM. Please provide
> pointers on how this works as I've not used a VM since I gave up on VMware
> Workstation a half-dozen years ago.

   Figured it out.

   1) Created an .iso from the win7 cdrom.

   2) Ran 'qemu-img create -f qcow2 win7.img 10G'.

   3) Ran 'qemu -m 1024 -hda win7.img -cdrom win7sp1-home64.iso -boot d'

And it boots!

   Next I'll try step 3 invoking qemu-kvm.

Rich