Hello Linux Geeksters. Qemu is an open source virtualization software. Qemu enables running more OSes on the same machine. Qemu supports virtualization under Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module.
As you may know, Qemu 1.5 has been just released. Because it is not available in any repository yet, we have to install it from sources.
This is how you install Qemu 1.5.0 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and any other Linux distribution you prefer:
Download Qemu from the official site:
$ wget -c wiki.qemu-project.org/download/qemu-1.5.0.tar.bz2
Extract the archive and cd into it:
$ tar xjvf qemu-1.5.0.tar.bz2
$ cd qemu-1.5.0
Configure:
$ ./configure
Compile:
$ make
Install:
$ sudo make install
Clean up:
$ sudo make clean
Thanks for the info! When all that is done, what do one need to do to launch QEMU? A separated GUI or a QEMU binary in /usr/local/bin? I am new to QEMU and I want to compare it to VirtualBox for a Win7 VM. Thanks.