On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 05:48:50PM -0500, liebre...@grossmann-venter.com wrote: > I have been using Qemu in the past about 8 years ago or so to run legacy > windows software. > > I installed the latest qemu and noticed a lot changed and cant find > conclusive answers online. > > I am writing this post to find what is the right way to start to set up qemu > with a windows 7 pro guest. I want to try and eliminate the iterations and > find out what is really possible for the guest. > > Hardware used" > 24 Core AMD rackserver. > Host OS Debian 9 Stretch > Guest Windows 7 Pro 32 bit > > Requirements: > 1) I need to be able to run at least 4 processors in the guest. Is this > possible with qemu as hosts ? > 2) I need to at least have sound working from applications in the guest with > pulseaudio on the Debian host. Is it possible ? > 3) USB, what is the level of support 2.0 3.0 ? > ( However windo$ 7 cannot really do USB3. so usb-3 is moot anyway) > 4) What kind of devices can be run through usb ? > > The answers to 1-4 will be really helpful to decide if I should even be > using it. The documentation is schetchy about all this. > I tried Virtualbox, but it is just a nice looking empty promisebox yielding > nothing. Since Qemu helped me a lot in the past I will have better chances > here. > > 5) I am currently installing win7pro guest with command > $] qemu-system-x86_64 -boot c -cdrom /dev/cdrom -m 2048M > > and left out all the network card and sound driver switches as I have no > clue what I should choose. > Can they be configured afterwards ?
Running QEMU manually is pretty complex. It's often used as a component underneath libvirt - with nicer GUIs on top. Have you tried virt-manager (https://virt-manager.org/) or GNOME Boxes (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes)? That way you don't need to learn all the details of QEMU command-line options (and there are many!). Stefan
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