Wednesday, April 16, 2008

QEMU - Virtual machine

Running QEMU to boot into a iso image of DSL:

Download / Install QEMU :)

run qemu as follows:

qemu -L . -cdrom ..\dsl-2.3.iso -boot d

If you want to have a virtual hdd:

qemu-img create -f raw linuxhdd.img 500M

boot into dsl:

qemu -L . -cdrom ..\dsl-2.3.iso -hda linuxhdd.img -boot d

open xterm as superuser(root)

fdisk /dev/hda

create partition as required

mfsk.ext3 /dev/hda1

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda

boot and install dsl on to the disk image or store files on to the disk image

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