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Running Linux in a VM

Hardware Requirements

You need a system with virtualization (VT-d), at least 4GB of RAM, and 40GB of free hard drive space in order to run Linux in a VM. If you want to download and compile the kernel, you may need additional space of up to 20GB.

Download Debian

Download link to Get a recent version of Debian.

Install Qemu Virtualizer

Instructions for Debian OS

apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-system-x86

You need a space for VM either a file image or disk block.

Example with using a file for VM.

Create a 50GB qcow2 format image file for VM Note qcow2 grows in space as needed. In the start it is not 50GB in size.

qemu-img create -f qcow2 debian-vm.img 50G

Here is a qemu invocation shell script for the VM Get a suitable iso image file for distro installation