Building a VM

Getting Started with Napatech Link-Virtualization™ Software

Platform

Napatech SmartNIC

Content Type

Getting Started

Getting Started Guide

Capture Software Version

Link-Virtualization™ Software 4.5

QEMU can be used for building a virtual machine from the ISO image of a Linux distribution. Follow this procedure to create a VM image.

Download the ISO image for your chosen operating system, for example fedora29.iso.
Create a qemu harddisk image file.
```
qemu-img create fedora.img 10G
```
Use the qemu harddisk image file created in step 2, as the harddisk in the qemu -boot command, to begin the installation of the operating system into the VM.
For example:
```
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm –boot d –cdrom fedora29.iso –hda fedora.img –enable-kvm –cpu host –smp 4 –m 4G
```
where fedora29.iso is the name of the ISO image downloaded in step 1.
Follow the prompts to install the OS to the VM harddisk image file.