{"id":2315,"date":"2022-08-24T20:14:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.samarthya.me\/wps\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2022-11-10T18:18:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T18:18:11","slug":"running-qemu-based-vms-on-osx-m1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.samarthya.me\/wps\/2022\/08\/24\/running-qemu-based-vms-on-osx-m1\/","title":{"rendered":"Running QEMu based VM’s on OSX M1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A popular choice in the OSS QEMu is an open source machine emulator (system emulation\/usermode emulation<\/code>) and virtualizer. Since I recently moved to Apple M1 silicone, I had not option of sticking to VirtualBox and was forced to relook at my options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most recent version being 7.1.0-rc3<\/code> at the time of writing this blog. <\/p>qemu.org<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In this blog let’s try and look at some of the commands I used to build an RockyLinux machine on a MacPro M1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Look at the official man page here<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Another helpful link<\/a> that I used<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Define the disk image<\/p>\n\n\n\n

> qemu-img create -f qcow2 centos4.brokers.test 15G\nFormatting 'centos4.brokers.test', fmt=qcow2 cluster_size=65536 extended_l2=off compression_type=zlib size=16106127360 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You can look at the detailed help via<\/p>\n\n\n\n
> qemu-img --help\nqemu-img version 7.0.0\nCopyright (c) 2003-2022 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers\nusage: qemu-img [standard options] command [command options]\nQEMU disk image utility\n\n    '-h', '--help'       display this help and exit\n    '-V', '--version'    output version information and exit\n    '-T', '--trace'      [[enable=]<pattern>][,events=<file>][,file=<file>]\n                         specify tracing options\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The option we are interested in were<\/p>\n\n\n\n
create [--object objectdef] [-q] [-f fmt] [-b backing_file [-F backing_fmt]] [-u] [-o options] filename [size]<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Option<\/td>Description<\/td><\/tr>
-f<\/td>Defines the format. In our example qcow2<\/td><\/tr>
centos2.brokers.test.qcow2<\/td>File name on the disk<\/td><\/tr>
15G<\/td>Size of the disk in bytes. Optional suffixes 
“k” or “K” (kilobyte, 1024) 
“M” (megabyte, 1024k) and 
“G” (gigabyte, 1024M) and 
“T” (terabyte, 1024G) are supported. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
https:\/\/linux.die.net\/man\/1\/qemu-img<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
> qemu-img check -f qcow2 centos4.brokers.test\nNo errors were found on the image.\nImage end offset: 262144<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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