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tony5429

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[SOLVED] Qemu not Starting with Arch Wiki Instructions

I'm trying to follow the Arch Wiki instructions for Qemu here - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/QEMU

However, after running the commands (note, I've made one change to the second command to point to the "image_file" file made in the first command), nothing actually shows up - there's no Qemu popup window showing my virtualized machine...

[tony@arch ~]$ qemu-img create -f raw image_file 4GFormatting 'image_file', fmt=raw size=4294967296
[tony@arch ~]$ qemu-img create -o backing_file=image_file,backing_fmt=raw -f qcow2 img1.cow
Formatting 'img1.cow', fmt=qcow2 cluster_size=65536 extended_l2=off compression_type=zlib size=4294967296 backing_file=image_file backing_fmt=raw lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16
[tony@arch ~]$ qemu-system-x86_64 img1.cow
VNC server running on ::1:5901

Last edited by tony5429 (2023-02-03 11:50:25)

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d.ALT

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Re: [SOLVED] Qemu not Starting with Arch Wiki Instructions

Not a QEMU expert at all, but... I think you're booting off from an empty (virtualized) Hard Disk. What if you try actually booting something? See "3.3".
Also:

Tip:

    When running QEMU in headless mode, it starts a local VNC server on port 5900 per default. You can use TigerVNC to connect to the guest OS: vncviewer :5900

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Re: [SOLVED] Qemu not Starting with Arch Wiki Instructions

there's no Qemu popup window showing my virtualized machine

Sounds like you've installed qemu-base but you actually want qemu-desktop.

EDIT: for clarity:

# pacman -S qemu-desktop # agree to replace qemu-base

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2023-02-02 18:37:46)

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tony5429

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Re: [SOLVED] Qemu not Starting with Arch Wiki Instructions

Ah; that was it, Head_on_a_Stick! Thanks!

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