Getting Started

Let’s boot a ISO using qemantra. You will need to have the qemu-system-x86 binary installed on your system. See here for more information.

After you have installed qemantra using one of the methods, we can create a virtual machine using the qemantra create command.

  • For this example let’s make a Linux Mint VM with 4G of RAM and dedicating 3 cores to the machine.

  • We are not creating or attaching any disk to this VM, because we don’t want to install it.

This can be achived by 2 simple steps.

Run

qemantra create

This would ask you a series of questions. Answer them accordingly.

It should automatically create the ~/.qemantra directory.

qemantra should create a configuration file for your VM in /home/<username>/.qemantra/machines. The filename should be <name>.json.

For actually running the virtual machien and attach the ISO, use 

qemantra run -iso <path-to-iso>

It should run QEMU in SDL (GUI) mode, booting the Linux Mint ISO.


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qemantra has a lot of configuration options, while creating and running virtual machines. Read the documentation to know more.