tldr/pages/common/qemu-system-i386.md

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}} -cdrom {{os_image.iso}} -boot d -m {{4096}}

• 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-x86_64 {{[-M|-machine]}} help