92.2 QuickEmu

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quickemu provides a very simple and neat command line to run Linux, MacOS, and Windows as guest virtual machines (VMs) locally. See https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu.

Activate

quickget ubuntu 24.04
quickemu --vm ubuntu-24.04.conf

Copy and Paste

To ensure we can copy and paste between the host and our guest VM we need to use the SPICE protocol:

quickemu --vm ubuntu-24.04.conf --display spice

This also requires the spice-client-gtk installed on the guest VM for Debian/Ubuntu or see the [SPICE Windows guest tools](https://www.spice-space.org/download.html] for a Windows guest VM.

The SPICE protocol also supports host file sharing with the guest and USB device redirection

Disk Size

Add the following to ubuntu-24.04.conf before setting up:

disk_size="30G"

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