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Using another operating system from inside Windows has its own advantages. For example, you can test applications belonging to another operating system without having to reboot or even having a secondary computer. You can also use a virtual operating system to run test servers of all kinds – web servers, mail servers, etc.
This is achieved through the use of a virtualization software like VirtualBox or Qemu. Personally, I prefer Qemu over VirtualBox as you do not have to go through too many settings and create configurations to quickly run a virtual operating system. For example, you can run any Linux inside Windows in just 2-3 steps.
Here is how quick the process is:
- First of all install Qemu on your Windows PC. You can download it from https://qemu.weilnetz.de/.
- Optionally, add Qemu binary folder (C:\Program Files\qemu) to the PATH variable of your system. For this, you have to open system settings (Win+Pause), select Advanced System Settings, click on Environment Variables and then add a new path to the system PATH variable. This step makes it easy to use Qemu from anywhere.
- Download any Linux ISO for our use. In this case we will use very small and simple Slax Linux which can be downloaded from https://www.slax.org/. You can use any other Linux flavor if you want.
- Launch a cmd.exe console by pressing Win+R, typing cmd.exe and then pressing Enter.
- Give this command to switch to folder where Slax ISO file is downloaded: CD C:\Slax assuming Slax ISO file (slax-64bit-9.9.1.iso) is placed in that folder.
- This is optional step – needed only if you want to install Linux on a virtual hard drive. Give this command to create a virtual hard drive : qemu-img create slax.img 10G where slax.img is the hard drive image name and 10G is its capacity.
- Finally we can launch Linux using qemu-system-x86_64 -boot d -cdrom slax-64bit-9.9.1.iso -m 1024 where 1024 is the RAM in megabytes allotted to this virtual machine. If you want to use a hard drive image then the command would be qemu-system-x86_64 -hda slax.img -boot d -cdrom slax-64bit-9.9.1.iso -m 1024 where slax.img is the virtual hard drive created in step 6 above.
- Qemu virtual machine will load in a new window and you can switch it to fullscreen if needed. You can find more information about this from Qemu documentation.
As you can see, you can launch Linux ISO in Windows using Qemu in basically one step. But if you want to attach a virtual hard drive, then you may need a few more steps. In my opinion, Qemu is much easier and faster than Virtual Box.
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Follow the steps below to run Linux Mint in a VM (“virtual machine”) using QEMU on Windows.
- Download and install the QEMU binaries. As of this writing, the latest binaries for a 64-bit Windows system are linked at the URL “https://www.qemu.org/download/#windows”.
- In any convenient location, create a new directory named “LinuxOnQemuTest”.
- Download Linux Mint as an .iso file into the newly creted LinuxOnQemuTest directory. As of this writing, the latest version is available for download via the URL “https://linuxmint.com/”.
- To simplify later steps, rename the newly downloaded iso file to “LinuxMint.iso”.
- Open a command prompt window and navigate to the LinuxOnQemuTest directory.
- In the command prompt, run the command “qemu-img create Disk.img 20G” to create a blank hard disk image file of sufficient size to install Linux Mint (>12.7 GB).
- Run the command “qemu-system-x86_64.exe -boot d -cdrom LinuxMint.iso -m 4G -drive file=Disk.img,format=raw -accel whpx,kernel-irqchip=off”. (Note that this command was tested on a Windows 10 machine with hardware virtualization enabled. If the -accel switch and its argument are omitted, QEMU will run the VM without hardware acceleration in “pure software” mode, but this will likely be too slow for any serious use.)
- On the Linux Mint boot menu that appears, make sure the “Start Linux Mint” item is selected, then press the Enter Key. (As noted in the title bar of the QEMU window, you may have to press Ctrl-Alt-G for the mouse pointer to be released from the window. When you click back on the VM window, make sure to line up the host’s mouse cursor with the guest VM’s mouse cursor, or it will be impossible to move the cursor to some parts of the guest VM window.)
- Verify that Linux Mint starts up correctly.
- If possible, install Linux Mint to the hard drive image file by double-clicking the “Install Linux Mint” icon on the desktop. Follow the prompts to install.
- Once a message is displayed Linux Mint has been installed, close the VM window and run the command “qemu-system-x86_64.exe -m 4G -drive file=Disk.img,format=raw -accel whpx,kernel-irqchip=off” to re-run the VM without booting from the .iso file.
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В прошлой статье я рассказывал про создание и запуск виртуальной машины при помощи QEMU на MacOS, а в этот раз давайте рассмотрим установку Linux на Windows 10 на основе QEMU. Да и как обычно, если тексту с картинками вы предпочитаете видео, то вот мой обзор QEMU на YouTube.
Шаг 1. Устанавливаем QEMU
С официального сайта QEMU можно скачать инсталлятор для Windows. Проверить установилась ли корректно программа, можно запросив версию QEMU следующей командой
qemu-system-x86_64 –version
Если установка программы прошла успешно, то вы увидите что-то вроде такого сообщения
Шаг 2. Прописываем QEMU в переменные окружения
Чтобы удобнее было пользоваться программой я рекомендую прописать путь, где была установлена программа в переменные окружения. В моем случае это “c:\Program Files\qemu”.
Проще всего это сделать так. В меню “Start/Пуск” написать “env” и выбрать “Edit environment variables for your account”
Выберите переменную Path и нажмите кнопку “ Edit..”
В появившемся окне нажмите кнопку “New” и добавьте путь к QEMU
Шаг 3. Включаем Windows Hypervisor Platform
В меню Start/Пуск напишите “windows features”. Выберите пункт “Turn Windows features on or off”
В появившемся окне, в списке найдите и убедитесь, что помечен пункт “Windows Hypervisor Platform”
Шаг 4. Скачиваем iso-файл дистрибутива Linux
Для инсталляции Linux на виртуальную машину потребуется ее дистрибутив в формате ISO, который можно скачать с официального сайта. Я буду ставить Ubuntu Desktop.
Шаг 5. Создаем виртуальную машину
Основные приготовления сделаны. Теперь переходим к созданию виртуальной машины. Первым делом надо создать папку для виртуальной машины. Для удобства работы, скопируйте в нее скачанный ранее iso-файл с Ubuntu. Файл диска виртуальной машины создаётся командой
qemu-img create -f qcow2 ubuntu-20.10-desktop-amd64.qcow2 15G
Эта команда создаст файл виртуальной машины с именем ubuntu-20.10-desktop-amd64.qcow2 в формате QCOW2 на 15 Гб. Изначально файл не будет занимать сразу 15 Гб, а будет значительно меньше однако его предел — 15 Гб. Впрочем, это значение можно будет изменить позже.
Шаг 5. Устанавливаем Ubuntu
После того, как файл диска для виртуальной машины создан можно приступать к инсталляции Ubuntu. Для этого запустим виртуальную машину с подключенным iso-образом Ubuntu.
qemu-system-x86_64 ^
-machine type=q35,accel=whpx ^
-smp 2 ^
-hda ubuntu-20.10-desktop-amd64.qcow2 ^
-cdrom ubuntu-20.10-desktop-amd64.iso ^
-m 4G ^
-vga virtio ^
-usb ^
-device usb-tablet ^
-display default,show-cursor=on
Что означают параметры этой команды
- machine — Эмулируемая машина и тип акселератора. q35 — это один из последних типов машин, а whpx — это акселератор для Windows10.
- smp — Число процессоров для виртуальной машины
- m — Размер оперативной памяти для виртуальной машины
- hda — Ссылка на файл диска
- cdrom — Ссылка на ISO-файл
- vga — Графическая карта
- usb — Разрешает доступ к USB-порту
- device — Добавляем «usb-tablet» как устройство ввода, иначе мышь может не заработать
- display — Включаем отображение курсора мыши на экране. Отключено по умолчанию.
После старта виртуальной машины запустится инсталлятор Ubuntu. По завершению система предложит перегрузиться.
Вместо этого лучше перейти в терминал, в котором запускали виртуальную машину и выйти из QEMU клавишами Сtrl+C.
Шаг 6. Запускаем виртуальную машину
Виртуальная машина с Ubuntu полностью готова, только теперь для запуска нам не нужна ссылка на iso-образ Ubuntu. Поэтому немного модифицируем команду запуска виртуальной машины, убрав из нее параметр cdrom.
qemu-system-x86_64 ^
-machine type=q35,accel=whpx ^
-smp 2 ^
-hda ubuntu-20.10-desktop-amd64.qcow2 ^
-m 8G ^
-vga virtio ^
-usb ^
-device usb-tablet ^
-display default,show-cursor=on
Команда для запуска достаточно объёмная, советую скопировать ее в bat-файл и хранить его в том же директории где и файл диска виртуальной машины. Так будет удобнее запускать.
Here is how I run a minimal version of CentOS 7 on a Windows 7 Enterprise, 64 bits, without being a member of the administrator group (non-admin).
The basic idea is:
- Download qemu for windows and unzip it anywhere
- Download an ISO image of the Linux distribution you want to run
- Create a file that will be your virtual machine hard disk
- Run qemu, booting from the CD image
- Install the OS
- Reboot the virtual machine, this time without the CD image
Networking and fancy graphics are hard to get right. Still struggling, actually…
1. Download QEMU
Use a precompiled binary found on QEMU links page. I used version 2.8.0 for this.
To «install» this version as a non-admin, open a command prompt, issue the command set __COMPAT_LAYER=RunAsInvoker and run qemu-w64-setup-20170131.exe from that prompt. Install in a folder where you have write permissions, like «My Documents» or something.
2. Download an ISO image of Linux
Again, help yourself. I used the Minimal distribution of CentOS 7, the file is called CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1611.iso.
3. Create a virtual hard disk
I used a batch file for this. Copy the following to a file named createvm.bat and adjust the variables to suit your environment:
@echo off
rem ==================================
rem Replace with your values
rem ==================================
set "QEMUDIR=%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Warez\qemu-2.8.0-win64"
rem ==================================
rem Safety net
rem ==================================
if not exist hda.img (
rem CREATE a virtual hard disk
"%QEMUDIR%\qemu-img.exe" create hda.img 40G
) else (
echo file hda.img already exist. Delete or move and try again.
goto:eof
)
4. Run QEMU, booting from the virtual CD
Use a batch for this one, as you might use it often. Copy the follwing into installvm.bat:
@echo off
rem ==================================
rem Replace with your values
rem ==================================
set "QEMUDIR=%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Warez\qemu-2.8.0-win64"
set "ISOFILE=CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1611.iso"
rem ==================================
rem You can add a w suffix to this if
rem you don't want a console
rem ==================================
set "QEMUBIN=qemu-system-x86_64.exe"
rem ==================================
rem Run the virtual machine
rem ==================================
start "QEMU" "%QEMUDIR%\%QEMUBIN%" -drive file=hda.img,index=0,media=disk,format=raw -cdrom %ISOFILE% -m 2G -L Bios -usbdevice mouse -usbdevice keyboard -boot menu=on -rtc base=localtime,clock=host -parallel none -serial none -name centos -no-acpi -no-hpet -no-reboot
5. Install the OS
I had trouble with the GUI installer. When prompted to install CentOS, hit the TAB key and replace the word quiet at the end of that line with the word text.
Follow the installation instructions on screen. When the installation is finished, the virtual machine will exit. It can take quite a while, especially when running as a non-admin user.
6. Run your Linux image in QEMU
This step is what you will do over and over again to run the VM each time you need it. Copy the follwing into runvm.bat:
@echo off
rem ==================================
rem Replace with your values
rem ==================================
set "QEMUDIR=%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Warez\qemu-2.8.0-win64"
rem ==================================
rem You can add a w suffix to this if
rem you don't want a console
rem ==================================
set "QEMUBIN=qemu-system-x86_64.exe"
rem ==================================
rem Run the virtual machine
rem ==================================
start "QEMU" "%QEMUDIR%\%QEMUBIN%" -drive file=hda.img,index=0,media=disk,format=raw -m 2G -L Bios -usbdevice mouse -usbdevice keyboard -boot menu=on -rtc base=localtime,clock=host -parallel none -serial none -name centos -no-acpi -no-hpet -no-reboot -device e1000,netdev=user.0 -netdev user,id=user.0,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22
I added a local portforward : if you ssh/putty to localhost:2222, you will reach the SSH daemon of your VM. Beware that firewalld or iptables might block traffic, depending on the way you installed Linux.
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- 2.1 Conclusion
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