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-====== Qemu Stuff ======
-[[https://www.qemu.org|Qemu]] is a machine emulator (i.e. virtual machine), similar to VirtualBox and VMWare.
-===== Notes =====
-  * change tty in the guest os running on qemu with ALT + left or right arrows
-    * older qemu need to switch view to compatmonitor , then type ''sendkey ctrl-alt-f2''
-===== Virtual Disks =====
-To create 15G disk image: <code>qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk.qcow2 15G</code>
-To convert from VBox disk image: <code>qemu-img convert -f vdi -O qcow2 disk.vdi disk.qcow2</code>
-===== Other Stuff =====
-//just dumping this here for now...//
-<code>
-qemu-system-i386 -m 1536 -boot order=c,once=d -hda WinXP.qcow2 -cdrom winxp.iso
-qemu-system-i386 -m 1536 -boot order=c -hda WinXP.qcow2
-press ctrl+alt+2 to get monitor console
-- type 'info block' to get block device information
-- to change cd drive, type 'change <device> <file>'
-or, use -monitor switch
-qemu-system-i386 -monitor stdio -enable-kvm -m 1536M WinXP.qcow2
-to get pure vga (640x480) old games on windows xp?
--vga cirrus
-default is
-# -net nic -net user
-nic: enables network card
-user: sets up virtual subnet (dhcp: 10.0.2.15{guest} 10.0.2.2{host})
-# -net nic -net user,hostname=my1VM
-# -name "MY1 VM"
-# -redir tcp:2222::22
-qemu-system-i386 -soundhw help
-qemu-system-i386 -soundhw sb16
-qemu-system-i386 -soundhw all
-d graphics
--vga virtio -display sdl,gl=on
--vga virtio -display gtk,gl=on
-qemu-img create -f qcow2 Slack.img 20G
-qemu-system-i386 -m 1536 -boot order=c,once=d -hda Slack.img -cdrom slackware-14.1-install.iso
-qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O raw image.qcow2 image.img
-qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 image.img image.qcow2
-qemu-img convert -O qcow2 image.qcow2 image_small.qcow2
-qemu-img convert -O qcow2 -c image.qcow2 image_smaller.qcow2
-</code>