Module 15 - Booting a disk image¶

Historical miniclass

This lesson was recovered from the former Sandia minimega site. It is preserved for reference and may describe obsolete software, operating systems, commands, or external resources. Consult the current documentation before applying it.

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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.