General Info About Using QEMU Images
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Each download is a bzipped tarball containing a qemu image:
The naming convention of the download tarball is:
<distribution>.<distro-version>.<arch>.<created-date>.qemu.tar.bz2.
All of the packages installed in the image will be the latest versions available as of the created date, which is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
The qemu images are stored in qemu's qcow2 image format with a single partition.
Prerequisites
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Working installation of qemu
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Enough filesystem space to accomodate the uncompressed tarball (generally 1GB)
Default Configuration and Networking
The root login is root/password. It is highly recommened that you change the root password immediately.
Installation
You will need to uncompress the tarball to a local directory.
For a 32-bit vm:
# qemu centos.5-5.x86-64.20100813.qcow
For a 64-bit vm:
# qemu-system-x86_64 centos.5-5.x86-64.20100813.qcow
If all is well you will see the guest’s boot messages scrolling by.