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