QEMU — Windows guest

Table of contents

Introduction

QEMU vs KVM

• QEMU is a type 2 hypervisor that runs within user space and performs virtual hardware emulation
• KVM is a type 1 hypervisor that runs in kernel space, that allows a user space program access to the hardware virtualization features of various processors.

Image disk creation

qemu-img create -f qcow2 WindowsVM.img 25G

Release mouse grabbed by QEMU

Ctrl+Alt+g

References

• gentoo QEMU/Windows guest
• libvirt scripts for various operating systems (KVM instead of QEMU)
• Como instalar o QEMU/KVM no Linux Mint, Ubuntu e outras Distros