<> This page should be merged with [[Installation/QemuEmulator]]. ||<>|| = Introduction = * QEMU is a full system emulator. It can be used to create a sandbox environment in which Ubuntu can be installed and demonstrations can be performed. The host computer can run a screen capture utility to record the window running QEMU. * kqemu is a kernel accelerator for QEMU. With kqemu loaded, QEMU is considerably faster. * kvm is a kernel based accelerator for CPUs which have the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization|VT]] extensions to their instruction set. * qemu-launcher is a graphical frontend to QEMU, designed to make it easier to start virtual machines, without having to know the command line options. = Installation = == Installing kqemu & QEMU == Install qemu package from universe repository. {{{ sudo apt-get install qemu }}} kqemu is an open-source kernel based accelerator designed for QEMU. Its author is the main developer behind QEMU itself. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KQEmu == Installing kvm & QEMU == Kvm includes a kernel module and a modified QEMU package. Feisty has kvm in the 2.6.20 kernel. Other releases need to compile kvm manually from http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki using http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/HOWTO as a guide. == qemu-launcher == qemu-launcher is in the standard repository and so can be easily installed:- {{{ sudo apt-get install qemu-launcher }}} = Using QEMU = == Creating disk images == == Booting up QEMU ==