Install Alpine in QEMU: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 22:54, 27 February 2022

Before You Start

Download the latest Alpine image.
Install QEMU on your system (e.g. sudo apt install qemu on Ubuntu, yum -y install qemu on Fedora)

If you are using alpine linux, you will like need to install:

 # apk add qemu qemu-img qemu-system-x86_64 qemu-ui-gtk

Create the Virtual Machine

Create a disk image if you want to install Alpine Linux.

qemu-img create -f qcow2 alpine.qcow2 8G

The following command starts QEMU with the Alpine ISO image as CDROM, the default network configuration, 512MB RAM, the disk image that was created in the previous step, and CDROM as the boot device.

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -nic user -boot d -cdrom alpine-standard-3.10.2-x86_64.iso -hda alpine.qcow2

Tip: Add option -enable-kvm if your hardware support this.

Log in as root (no password) and run:

setup-alpine

Follow the setup-alpine installation steps.

Run poweroff to shut down the machine.

Booting the Virtual Machine

After the installation, QEMU can be started from disk image (-boot c) without CDROM.

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -nic user -hda alpine.qcow2

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 * Download the [http://alpinelinux.org/downloads latest Alpine image].
 * Install QEMU on your system (e.g. <code>sudo apt install qemu</code> on Ubuntu, <code>yum -y install qemu</code> on Fedora)
+If you are using alpine linux, you will like need to install:
+  # apk add qemu qemu-img qemu-system-x86_64 qemu-ui-gtk
 ==Create the Virtual Machine==