
For computers with 512MB of RAM it's safe to use -m 192, or even -m 128 (the default) If you have less than 1GB of memory don't use the -m 384 flag (which allocates 384 MB of RAM for the guest). (kvm doesn't make a distinction between i386 and x86_64 so even in i386 you should use `qemu-system-x86_64`) BR

Installing a guest operating system sudo /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -hda vdisk.img -cdrom /path/to/boot-media.iso \ configure as explained in Creating a disk image for the guest /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 vdisk.img 10G Note: if sound doesn't play in the guest vm you can add -audio-drv-list="alsa oss" to. If you're using an older kernel, or a kernel from your distribution without the kvm modules, you'll have to compile the modules yourself: If you are using a recent kernel (2.6.25+) with kvm modules included, boot into it, and: It was written primarily to deal with the heavy use of ctrl-alt-delete in NT-based VMs. There exists a which will change the SDL keygrab combination from ctrl-alt to ctrl-alt-shift. Please report problems (and successes) to the mailing list. Note: When building from git, you also need gawk.
#Qemu system i386 install
On a debian etch system you can install the prerequisites with:Īpt-get install gcc libsdl1.2-dev zlib1g-dev libasound2-dev linux-kernel-headers pkg-config libgnutls-dev libpci-dev

