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QEMU (CLI)

  • Make sure you have the qemu-system-x86 package installed
  • Run the VM

Example using 8GB of RAM and 8 CPU cores:

$ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 8096 -enable-kvm -smp 8 -netdev user,id=mynet.0,hostfwd=tcp::18000-:18000,hostfwd=tcp::18010-:18010 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=mynet.0 -hda devstack-bullseye.qcow2

If this doesn't work for you, consider the following options.

GNOME Boxes

If you're in a GNOME environment, you can either use Boxes or virt-manager. Both should be installable via your package manager of choice.

Create the VM in Boxes

Create a new VM from file

create vm

Select Debian 11 as the OS

select os

Select 8+ GB of ram, create VM

create vm

Create the VM in virt-manager

Alternatively, you can create the VM in virt-manager. Open it up, click on new VM, and choose Import existing disk image.

create vm

Then, browse to the location where you extracted from the zip file, and select it:

import_image

Now select "Debian 11" as the OS:

select os

Give the VM 8192 MiB or more of RAM and at least 2 CPU cores. 16384 MiB and 4 cores are recommended, if you have the hardware to spare.

hardware

Review settings and click "Finish."

review settings

After a short while, a terminal window will pop up showing the operating system boot process.

booted

Set up port forwarding

There are two ways to do port forwarding. We'll start with the simplest one, using SSH.

SSH port forwarding

First, find the IP of your VM:

$ virsh net-dhcp-leases default
 Expiry Time           MAC address         Protocol   IP address          Hostname            Client ID or DUID
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
 2023-03-27 18:27:25   52:54:00:91:92:02   ipv4       192.168.122.77/24   devstack-bullseye   ff:00:91:92:02:00:01...

In this example, the IP address is 192.168.122.77. In your case, it will be different. SSH into it using the following command, substituting 192.168.122.77 with the IP address you obtained above. The password is devstack.

$ ssh -L 18000:localhost:18000 -L 18010:localhost:18010 [email protected]

QEMU port forwarding

One can also use QEMU's native port forwarding if SSH is not desirable.

Find your VM with virsh

virsh list or virsh -c qemu:///session list --all

find the name of the devstack vm, mine was debian11

$ virsh list
 Id   Name       State
--------------------------
 3    debian11   running

$ virsh -c qemu:///session list --all
 Id   Name            State
--------------------------------
 3    debian11        running

Edit your VM config using virsh

$ virsh edit debian11

remove the user interface block <interface type='user'>

add qemu namespace to root tag

<domain type='kvm'>

to

<domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>

add command line stuff to the end

  <qemu:commandline>
    <qemu:arg value='-netdev'/>
    <qemu:arg value='user,id=mynet.0,net=10.0.10.0/24,hostfwd=tcp::18000-:18000,hostfwd=tcp::18010-:18010'/>
    <qemu:arg value='-device'/>
    <qemu:arg value='virtio-net-pci,netdev=mynet.0,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x3'/>
  </qemu:commandline>