How To Install qemu-system-x86-microvm on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-x86-microvm on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is qemu-system-x86-microvm
qemu-system-x86-microvm is:
QEMU is a fast processor emulator - this minimal package supports only KVM based x86-64 system emulation with a vastly reduced feature set intended to be used with the microvm machine type.
This minimal qemu is stripped of most features to save startup time when spawning for use cases with the microvm type and the bios-microvm.bin bios which are used to provide container like use cases with KVM isolation. For any other common KVM based activity qemu-system-x86 will be more suited.
Package: qemu-system-x86-microvm Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:4.2-3ubuntu6 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/otherosfs Source: qemu Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 11441 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libnuma1 (>= 2.0.11), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.19.6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), qemu-system-common (» 1:2.12~), qemu-system-data (» 1:4.2-3ubuntu6~) Recommends: qemu-utils Filename: pool/universe/q/qemu/qemu-system-x86-microvm_4.2-3ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 1931168 MD5sum: 962f42406cbd5307e68dc6c6ddd2b80b SHA1: 916b4bc8ee45fab65cabb5b341aeb0f835aa3daa SHA256: 9900b39198152aab7c12c45d46134ce04e935e5a470fa726c1c525ea7ead2fb5 Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/ Description-en: QEMU minimized system emulation binaries (x86) QEMU is a fast processor emulator - this minimal package supports only KVM based x86-64 system emulation with a vastly reduced feature set intended to be used with the microvm machine type.
This minimal qemu is stripped of most features to save startup time when spawning for use cases with the microvm type and the bios-microvm.bin bios which are used to provide container like use cases with KVM isolation. For any other common KVM based activity qemu-system-x86 will be more suited.
There are three methods to install qemu-system-x86-microvm on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install qemu-system-x86-microvm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-system-x86-microvm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qemu-system-x86-microvm
Install qemu-system-x86-microvm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-system-x86-microvm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qemu-system-x86-microvm
Install qemu-system-x86-microvm Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-system-x86-microvm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qemu-system-x86-microvm
How To Uninstall qemu-system-x86-microvm on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the qemu-system-x86-microvm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qemu-system-x86-microvm
Uninstall qemu-system-x86-microvm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qemu-system-x86-microvm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qemu-system-x86-microvm
Remove qemu-system-x86-microvm Configurations and Data
To remove qemu-system-x86-microvm configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qemu-system-x86-microvm
Remove qemu-system-x86-microvm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qemu-system-x86-microvm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qemu-system-x86-microvm
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-x86-microvm package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.