How To Install qemu-system-x86-xen on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-x86-xen on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is qemu-system-x86-xen
qemu-system-x86-xen is:
QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports i386 and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.
This package provides the full system emulation binaries to emulate the following x86 hardware:
In comparison to the main qemu-system-x86 this package has xen support enabled, but is only maintained as universe package. Qemu with xen support is needed to run Xen in HVM mode. For any other use case you should install and use qemu-system-x86 instead.
Package: qemu-system-x86-xen 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: 30688 Depends: libaio1 (>= 0.3.93), libbrlapi0.7, libc6 (>= 2.29), libcacard0 (>= 2.2), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.3), libepoxy0 (>= 1.3), libfdt1 (>= 1.5.1), libgbm1 (>= 7.11~1), libgcc-s1 (>= 4.7), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.12), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.4), libibverbs1 (>= 28), libiscsi7 (>= 1.18.0), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libnettle7, libnuma1 (>= 2.0.11), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.19.6), libpmem1 (>= 1.4), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1), librados2 (>= 0.72.2), librbd1 (>= 12.0.3), librdmacm1 (>= 1.0.15), libsasl2-2 (>= 2.1.27+dfsg), libseccomp2 (>= 2.1.0), libslirp0 (>= 4.0.0), libspice-server1 (>= 0.14.2), libssh-4 (>= 0.8.4), libtinfo6 (>= 6), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.22), libusbredirparser1 (>= 0.6), libvirglrenderer1 (>= 0.8.2), libvte-2.91-0 (>= 0.49.92), libx11-6, libxendevicemodel1, libxenevtchn1, libxenforeignmemory1, libxengnttab1, libxenmisc4.11, libxenstore3.0 (>= 4.2~), libxentoolcore1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), qemu-system-common (» 1:4.2-3ubuntu6~), qemu-system-data (» 1:4.2-3ubuntu6~), ipxe-qemu Recommends: qemu-system-gui (= 1:4.2-3ubuntu6), qemu-utils, seabios Suggests: qemu-block-extra (= 1:4.2-3ubuntu6), ovmf Conflicts: qemu-system-x86 Filename: pool/universe/q/qemu/qemu-system-x86-xen_4.2-3ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 6392748 MD5sum: 6c06e5da82b94041ce0da5a5af47e05e SHA1: aef285824283cea70add33ac8e7286946d3b29a3 SHA256: f07b2a8ebb2d87c6009668e7a820bdd41efc02d72bef022a2d383ad96a58d144 Homepage: http://www.qemu.org/ Description-en: QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86) QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports i386 and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.
This package provides the full system emulation binaries to emulate the following x86 hardware:
In comparison to the main qemu-system-x86 this package has xen support enabled, but is only maintained as universe package. Qemu with xen support is needed to run Xen in HVM mode. For any other use case you should install and use qemu-system-x86 instead.
There are three methods to install qemu-system-x86-xen 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-xen 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-xen using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qemu-system-x86-xen
Install qemu-system-x86-xen Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-system-x86-xen using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qemu-system-x86-xen
Install qemu-system-x86-xen 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-xen using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qemu-system-x86-xen
How To Uninstall qemu-system-x86-xen on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the qemu-system-x86-xen package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qemu-system-x86-xen
Uninstall qemu-system-x86-xen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qemu-system-x86-xen 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-xen
Remove qemu-system-x86-xen Configurations and Data
To remove qemu-system-x86-xen configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qemu-system-x86-xen
Remove qemu-system-x86-xen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qemu-system-x86-xen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qemu-system-x86-xen
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-x86-xen package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
