A beginner-friendly guide to getting started with QEMU as a hypervisor. Covers creating a virtual disk with qemu-img using the qcow2 format, then booting an Alpine Linux guest with KVM acceleration, virtio networking, virtio disk, and SDL display. Each command-line flag is explained in detail. Also briefly lists advanced QEMU capabilities like cross-architecture emulation, SPICE remote access, GPU passthrough, and snapshot mode. The author strongly advocates QEMU over alternatives like VirtualBox and VMware.
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