Qemu Linux

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1) apt-get install qemu
 This will install Qemu :)
 
 2) Update to qemu0.9 or higher.
 At least this was necessary under Ubuntu 7. I did it like this:
 2a) Download the binary from here: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html
 2b) Untar it (but not in / as they say !)
 2c) copy all files from "usr/local/bin/" to "/usr/bin"
 2d) copy all files from "usr/local/share/qemu/" to "/usr/share/qemu/" (not quite sure about this one)
 
 3) qemu-img create qemu.img 4G -f qcow2
 This will create a partition that automatically grows and can store snapshots. 
 (Maybe you need to chmod this a bit. Not sure)
 
 4) qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d qemu.img
 Or if you want to boot from an iso: qemu -cdrom somefile.iso -boot d qemu.img
 
 5) Have fun!
 
 (If you get trapped in the Qemu window, press CTRL+ALT and you will be set free again)

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