September, 2024 - react-os on qemu on debian

0️⃣ Install qemu/kvm

$ sudo apt install qemu-system libvirt-daemon-system

1️⃣ Create Virtual Hard Disk

$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 ReactOS.qcow2 4G

2️⃣ Download "Boot CD" .iso file from https://reactos.org/download/

3️⃣ Launch VM

$ qemu-system-i386 -m 1G -enable-kvm -rtc base=localtime -machine accel=kvm -drive if=ide,index=0,media=disk,file=ReactOS.qcow2 -drive if=ide,index=2,media=cdrom,file=ReactOS.iso -boot order=d

where

-m 1G — we want 1G of RAM for our vm
`ReactOS.qcow2' — the virtual disk 1️⃣
`ReactOS.iso' — the boot CD 2️⃣

That's it.

References

https://reactos.org/
https://reactos.org/wiki/QEMU
https://wiki.debian.org/QEMU
https://wiki.debian.org/KVM

Next episode …

We'll install MSYS, MinGW, git, SciTE and Vishap Oberon on ReactOS.

Stay tuned 📻.

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