Category: Qemu

This blog post will explain how to disable audio in a qemu guest machine. Whenever a guest operating is used as a server, it is usually booted into console mode. It would be pointless to have a sound card enabled when there is no application that needs sound input and…

This blog post will show some examples on how to use the QEMU image command. Create a qcow2 image that has a maximum size of 20 GB. qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk.img 20G Display information about a qcow2 image. qemu-img info disk.img Increase the size of a qcow2 image to…

This blog post will explain how to forward ports with Qemu. If a guest machine is to be utilized as a server, the host operating system should have a way to connect to it. This example will boot a hard disk image. First a network device has to be defined…