Module 15: Booting a disk image

Introduction

The process is relatively simple to boot a disk instead of an ISO.

Commands

vm config cdrom becomes vm config disk

minimega:/tmp/minimega/minimega$ vm kill all
minimega:/tmp/minimega/minimega$ vm flush
minimega:/tmp/minimega/minimega$ clear vm config
minimega:/tmp/minimega/minimega$ vm config disk /home/ubuntu/wireshark.qcow2
minimega:/tmp/minimega/minimega$ vm config memory 256
minimega:/tmp/minimega/minimega$ vm launch kvm wireshark[1-3]
minimega:/tmp/minimega/minimega$ vm start all

Explore

With the knowledge you have now, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to take some time and try booting some of the other qcow images you created.

Authors

The minimega authors

30 May 2017