Samarthya

> qemu-system-aarch64 -machine help

You can look at the options you can supply by issuing the command above.

Supported machines are:
virt                 QEMU 7.0 ARM Virtual Machine (alias of virt-7.0)
virt-7.0             QEMU 7.0 ARM Virtual Machine

Sub-option

accel= selects accelerator supported accelerators are kvm, xen, hax, hvf, nvmm, whpx or tcg (default: tcg)

-accel [accel=]accelerator[,prop[=value][,...]]
                select accelerator (kvm, xen, hax, hvf, nvmm, whpx or tcg; use 'help' for a list)
                igd-passthru=on|off (enable Xen integrated Intel graphics passthrough, default=off)
                kernel-irqchip=on|off|split controls accelerated irqchip support (default=on)
                kvm-shadow-mem=size of KVM shadow MMU in bytes
                split-wx=on|off (enable TCG split w^x mapping)
                tb-size=n (TCG translation block cache size)
                dirty-ring-size=n (KVM dirty ring GFN count, default 0)
                thread=single|multi (enable multi-threaded TCG)

The other options are as under

-machine [type=]name[,prop[=value][,...]]
                selects emulated machine ('-machine help' for list)
                property accel=accel1[:accel2[:...]] selects accelerator
                supported accelerators are kvm, xen, hax, hvf, nvmm, whpx or tcg (default: tcg)
                vmport=on|off|auto controls emulation of vmport (default: auto)
                dump-guest-core=on|off include guest memory in a core dump (default=on)
                mem-merge=on|off controls memory merge support (default: on)
                aes-key-wrap=on|off controls support for AES key wrapping (default=on)
                dea-key-wrap=on|off controls support for DEA key wrapping (default=on)
                suppress-vmdesc=on|off disables self-describing migration (default=off)
                nvdimm=on|off controls NVDIMM support (default=off)
                memory-encryption=@var{} memory encryption object to use (default=none)
                hmat=on|off controls ACPI HMAT support (default=off)
                memory-backend='backend-id' specifies explicitly provided backend for main RAM (default=none)
                sgx-epc.0.memdev=memid,sgx-epc.0.node=numaid

> qemu-system-aarch64 -smp help

Allows you to specify specific cores and cpu values

smp-opts options:
clusters=<num>
cores=<num>
cpus=<num>
dies=<num>
maxcpus=<num>
sockets=<num>
threads=<num>

-smp [[cpus=]n][,maxcpus=maxcpus][,sockets=sockets][,dies=dies][,clusters=clusters][,cores=cores][,threads=threads]
                set the number of initial CPUs to 'n' [default=1]
                maxcpus= maximum number of total CPUs, including
                offline CPUs for hotplug, etc
                sockets= number of sockets on the machine board
                dies= number of dies in one socket
                clusters= number of clusters in one die
                cores= number of cores in one cluster
                threads= number of threads in one core

> qemu-system-aarch64 -drive help
qemu-system-x86_64: -drive help: Must specify either driver or file

Look at the detailed options as below

-drive [file=file][,if=type][,bus=n][,unit=m][,media=d][,index=i]
       [,cache=writethrough|writeback|none|directsync|unsafe][,format=f]
       [,snapshot=on|off][,rerror=ignore|stop|report]
       [,werror=ignore|stop|report|enospc][,id=name]
       [,aio=threads|native|io_uring]
       [,readonly=on|off][,copy-on-read=on|off]
       [,discard=ignore|unmap][,detect-zeroes=on|off|unmap]
       [[,bps=b]|[[,bps_rd=r][,bps_wr=w]]]
       [[,iops=i]|[[,iops_rd=r][,iops_wr=w]]]
       [[,bps_max=bm]|[[,bps_rd_max=rm][,bps_wr_max=wm]]]
       [[,iops_max=im]|[[,iops_rd_max=irm][,iops_wr_max=iwm]]]
       [[,iops_size=is]]
       [[,group=g]]
                use 'file' as a drive image

The sequence of boot. You can choose value based on CD-ROM “d” or hard-disk “c“.

-boot [order=drives][,once=drives][,menu=on|off]
      [,splash=sp_name][,splash-time=sp_time][,reboot-timeout=rb_time][,strict=on|off]
                'drives': floppy (a), hard disk (c), CD-ROM (d), network (n)
                'sp_name': the file's name that would be passed to bios as logo picture, if menu=on
                'sp_time': the period that splash picture last if menu=on, unit is ms
                'rb_timeout': the timeout before guest reboot when boot failed, unit is ms

Memory requirements for the guest system. My system has 32G so I can spare some for good quality VM’s (2048).

-m [size=]megs[,slots=n,maxmem=size]
                configure guest RAM
                size: initial amount of guest memory
                slots: number of hotplug slots (default: none)
                maxmem: maximum amount of guest memory (default: none)
NOTE: Some architectures might enforce a specific granularity

-name string1[,process=string2][,debug-threads=on|off]
                set the name of the guest
                string1 sets the window title and string2 the process name.

(Optional) disable graphical output and redirect serial I/Os to console

Display settings

[std|cirrus|vmware|qxl|xenfb|tcx|cg3|virtio|none]
select video card type