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Step 2: Creating a Virtual Machine in KVM

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Creating a disk image for the guest

The following command will create a resizing 10g image in your current directory:

# /usr/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 vdisk.img 10G


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Booting from CDROM

I struggled on our LTSP server to boot from CDROM, but found that I could boot easily from the downloaded IMG files (from Microsoft).

Boot from first CD image:
$ kvm -no-acpi -m 512 -cdrom /home/username/vdisks/w2k3/iso/X13-04874.img -boot d -hda w2k3.img -k en-gb -smp 2
Boot from second CD image:
$ kvm -no-acpi -m 512 -cdrom /home/username/vdisks/w2k3/iso/X13-04795.img -boot d -hda w2k3.img -k en-gb -smp 2


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