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How to test live CD and USB without rebooting using qemu

Posted on  12/6/2013

Introduction

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance.

When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. QEMU supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, QEMU can virtualize x86, server and embedded PowerPC, and S390 guests.

In Windows :

you can install qemu from scratch and configure it manually  but there is already a nice tool for windows called MobaliveCD download that it don’t required installation just download and open it as administrator .
choose disk and click create .

Download MObaLiveCD 

mobalIVe
mobalIVe

Open MobaLiveCD as administrator

Choose Your ISO or USB drive and start

qemu in Windows
qemu in Windows

In Mac :

Install qemu using homebrew

brew update 
brew install qemu

for testing USB

sudo qemu-system-x86_64  -m 1024 -usb /dev/rdisk2

where rdisk2 is your USB drive location & for testing ISO

sudo qemu-system-x86_64  -m 1024 linuxmint-16-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso

TESting ISO in mac using QEMU
TESting ISO in mac using QEMU

In Linux :

you can install qemu in debian and ubuntu based system using apt-get install in other distribution just use your default package manager and search for qemu .

sudo apt-get install qemu-system

Now open terminal

and now you can use processor virtualization and test your ISO and USB drives .

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 linuxmint-16-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso

qemu_in_linux
qemu_in_linux


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