QEMU Notes
<2022-05-01 Sun>
Types of Emulation
- System Emulation - emulates and entire system (CPU, Memory, Disk, etc)
- User Mode Emulation - emulates a CPU only, useful when wanting to run a binary compiled for another CPU. The binary must be a linux binary however
libvirt
- libvirt is an API to manage virtual machines
- The primary driver for libvirt in linux is the KVM/QEMU driver
- Many GUI clients have been written to use the libvirt API
- virt-manager is a popular client made by Redhat
Setting up an Arch Linux Host
- Install
qemu, virt-manager
- Open up virt-manager and add a user connection
- From here you can follow the "New Virtual Machine" wizard