Starting Debian with QEMU

First create an image – 30GB, using qcow2 format

qemu-img create -f qcow2 deb13.qcow2 30G

Then start qemu using the image

qemu-system-x86_64 \-drive file=deb13.qcow2 \-m 4096 \-nic model=pcnet \-vga cirrus \-smp sockets=4,cores=4,threads=1 \-accel hvf

• -m 4096 sets RAM to 4GB
• -nic model=pcnet enables networking with a pcnet adapter
• -vga cirrus enables the Cirrus Logic CLGD 5446 VGA card
• -smp sockets=4,cores=4,threads=1 sets up multi-processing
• -accel hvf enables the hypervisor framework on MacOS hosts
  • On Windows hosts, use -accel kvm or whpx