Quickemu

Having Fun with Technology

https://christitus.com/quickemu/

Dec 21 '22 14:12 utterances-bot

Awesome reveal... This is way to simple and it actually works beyond expectation.... Thanks and Merry Christmas!

Dec 21 '22 14:12 tmcarter

Thanks Chris, Have a great Christmas and don't eat too many Raspberry Pi's :)

Dec 21 '22 16:12 HawkeyeGSC

Hi Chris, first time "commenter". always watch your videos and I get some great knowledge from them. One thing you may consider and it may benefit other followers is this, I have 2 node VMware cluster, I would love to switch over to Proxmox but cannot make the unguided jump. Would you consider a long several part tutorials on how to set this up best practices?? Happy Christmas to you and all of yours.

Shane.

Dec 21 '22 18:12 shanekearney

Thanks Chris. That's a very cool 😎 Christmas 🤶 gift 📦 Happy new year!

Dec 21 '22 18:12 ZeTomaz

This would be just what I needed if I could get SPICE to work in Mint 21.1

Dec 21 '22 19:12 realmuddy

Thank you, Chris! I shall try this on my Debian desktop this weekend, hopefully it works just like Ubuntu. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Dec 21 '22 21:12 bers817

the nix installer does not bring the gui-tool. how do I get the gui?

Dec 22 '22 00:12 nift-d

QEMU looks awesome!

Dec 22 '22 02:12 joshackland

Qemu is no longer a separate package in Ubuntu 22.10 so this install does not work for said Ubuntu. Seems Ubuntu split qemu into a bunch of sub packages. Can you help us get the a list of dependencies we need so that Ubuntu can use this awesome goodie. Thanks so much for this one!

Dec 22 '22 08:12 iamjiwjr

Hi Chris I managed to install quickemu and quickgui on my Manjaro - just a head-up for those willing to do it, choose quickgui-bin in the package manager...

Now I have a question: How to pass a hard-drive through? I checked the other article but can't find my way in, don't see the interface you describe... May be I missed something obvious. Anyway an advice or a step-by-step would be helpful!

Dec 22 '22 08:12 Jean-Philippe-Manjaro

And you still didn't show how to share folders between host and guest. Maybe in the 3'd one about QEMU

Dec 22 '22 12:12 FlowXP

and also with this you can't use you own ISO....

nope I still think Virtualbox is the best out there, not ideal, but the best compared with others

Dec 22 '22 13:12 FlowXP

I keep getting "Unable to locate package swtpm"...

How do I install this as this won't continue without it..

Thanks

Dec 24 '22 14:12 klossman0814

Hi Chris! Thanks for a great guide. Tried this first on a Debian install but ended up in dependence hell so I thought I would give your sever/workstation install a try. My bad I installed 22.10 instead of 22.04 and as mentioned above the is no “qemu” package anymore but a multitude of package. Tried to find something about this online but all guides are for 22.04. Any advice (besides from reinstalling 22.04 😉)?

Dec 26 '22 14:12 gorillanajs

Hey Chris, great video BTW. Unfortunately I ran into a problem. I copied the links from your site, same one's you used, opened the quickgui, downloaded kubuntu and clicked to launch it but I keep getting a "Connect to SPICE" window. Any idea's what may have gone wrong? Oh yeah, I'm also running this on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS desktop. Thanks..

Dec 27 '22 19:12 mbssecguy58

Same issue I have. I asked myself but got no answer.

Dec 27 '22 19:12 realmuddy

Hey Chris, great video BTW. Unfortunately I ran into a problem. I copied the links from your site, same one's you used, opened the quickgui, downloaded kubuntu and clicked to launch it but I keep getting a "Connect to SPICE" window. Any idea's what may have gone wrong? Oh yeah, I'm also running this on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS desktop. Thanks..

Same issue I have. I asked myself but got no answer.

Try installing the spice vdagent sudo apt install spice-vdagent

The official spice site for hosts and clients are https://www.spice-space.org/download.html

Dec 27 '22 21:12 ChrisTitusTech

Thank you so much for this walkthrough video 🙌

Jan 11 '23 11:01 Bastigonzales

Hi! Thank you for making a video about what looks like a great service.

I have a couple questions.

Are there ways to optimize the install time? My Monterey vm has been about 5 hours and 57 minutes for the past 15 minutes.

also does this use Qemu-kvs? like hardware utilization?

also are there ways to migrate existing vbox or vmware vms to quickemu?

Jan 30 '23 10:01 machina20

Thanks Chris! Yes, it's nice to be able to use quickgui, but not all systems are available, but the list is growing which comes from using the quickget command. Also from reading previous comments, actually, there is a way to use your own ISO. You can download the ISO, and manually create the .conf file which is essentially made up of 3 lines. You need to use Terminal and create the subdirectory where the disk.qcow2 will reside and copy the ISO file into that same subdir. You could probably use other paths as well, but for simplicity:

mkdir -p ~/VMs/ copy the ISO into that new-subdir, then create the machine.conf file in the parent directory of :

guest_os="linux" #or "windows" if your own ISO is based off disk_img="machine-subdir-name/disk.qcow2 iso="machine-subdir-name/machine-name-date.iso"

Then to boot that image from ~/VMs: quickemu --vm machine-subdir-name.conf

Hope this helps some.

Feb 05 '23 01:02 Hi-Phile

Also, there is a Discord community where you can get more help or further discuss using quickemu and quickgui. https://discord.gg/sNmz3uw

For some reason the comment above probably didn't allow the "< >" so it stripped it from the mkdir -p ~/VMs/machine-name

I also forgot the closing double-quote on the disk_img line.

Feb 05 '23 01:02 Hi-Phile

Is there any way of getting this for Ubuntu 18.04? I can't upgrade currently for specific software reasons.

Mar 13 '23 02:03 gpp-2000

Just to let anyone running Manjaro or other Arch distro, the GUI can be built from: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/quickgui-bin ; tested on Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 Kernel Version: 6.6.26-1-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-5257U CPU @ 2.70GHz Memory: 7,7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Iris® Graphics 6100 Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Product Name: MacBookPro12,1 System Version: 1.0

May 05 '24 11:05 kelevrablondie

Every time I learn that the place to go for more help with a FOSS project is to go to some Discord community, I get a little sad inside.

Aug 18 '24 04:08 timlepes