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  • Aug 06 / 2018
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Snippet 0x0E: Booting image files and ISOs with KVM/QEMU (EFI and BIOS)

For my job, I work with file systems and image files a lot: Every day, we mess with Grub, the partition tables (MBR/GPT), EFI and BIOS systems, etc. So pretty much every day, I need to boot some image file or investigate why some image didn’t boot.

This (super duper) short post shows how to boot image files using straight kvm commands.

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