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To emulate any OS on our machine, we're going to use the QEMU emulator with the KVM hypervisor.
KVM
Follow this article to see if your hardware supports KVM and if it's currently running on your machine.
QEMU
Install all the necessaries dependencies and start the services.
sudo pacman -S qemu-desktop libvirt libvirt-dinit dnsmasq dnsmasq-dinit virt-manager
sudo dinitctl enable dnsmasq
sudo dinitctl enable libvirtd
sudo usermod -aG libvirt,dnsmasq $(whoami)
Network
You need to setup the network so your VMs will be able to access the internet. First start the default network by running
sudo virsh net-start default
Next we're going to use the helper called qemu-bridge-helper
. Check that you have ip forwarding enabled in /etc/sysctl.d/99-network.conf
and run
sudo echo "allow virbr0" > /etc/qemu/bridge.conf
sudo chown root:kvm /etc/qemu/bridge.conf
sudo chmod 0660 /etc/qemu/bridge.conf
sudo chmod u+s /usr/lib/qemu/qemu-bridge-helper
Now you can create a VM and assign a bridge network with vibr0
as the interface.