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qemu-system-i386 — Emulate the `i386` architecture. More information: <https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/target-i

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Problem

How to use the qemu-system-i386 command: Emulate the i386 architecture. More information: <https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/target-i386.html>.

Solution

qemu-system-i386 — Emulate the i386 architecture. More information: <https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/target-i386.html>.

Boot from an image emulating the i386 architecture:

qemu-system-i386 -hda {{image_name.img}} -m {{4096}}

Boot a QEMU instance from a live ISO image:

qemu-system-i386 -hda {{image_name.img}} -m {{4096}} -cdrom {{os_image.iso}} -boot d

Boot from a physical device (e.g. from USB to test a bootable medium):

qemu-system-i386 -hda {{/dev/storage_device}} -m {{4096}}

Do not launch a VNC server:

qemu-system-i386 -hda {{image_name.img}} -m {{4096}} -nographic

Exit non-graphical QEMU:

<Ctrl a><x>

List the supported machine types:

qemu-system-i386 {{[-M|-machine]}} help

Code Snippets

Boot from an image emulating the `i386` architecture

qemu-system-i386 -hda {{image_name.img}} -m {{4096}}

Boot a QEMU instance from a live ISO image

qemu-system-i386 -hda {{image_name.img}} -m {{4096}} -cdrom {{os_image.iso}} -boot d

Boot from a physical device (e.g. from USB to test a bootable medium)

qemu-system-i386 -hda {{/dev/storage_device}} -m {{4096}}

Do not launch a VNC server

qemu-system-i386 -hda {{image_name.img}} -m {{4096}} -nographic

Exit non-graphical QEMU

<Ctrl a><x>

Context

tldr-pages: common/qemu-system-i386

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