How To Install qemu-system-x86 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-x86 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is qemu-system-x86
qemu-system-x86 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: i386 x86_64.
In system emulation mode QEMU emulates a full system, including a processor and various peripherals. It enables easier testing and debugging of system code. It can also be used to provide virtual hosting of several virtual machines on a single server.
On x86 host hardware this package also enables KVM kernel virtual machine usage on systems which supports it.
Package: qemu-system-x86 Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:4.2-3ubuntu6 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: misc 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: 31855 Provides: qemu-system-i386, qemu-system-x86-64 Depends: libaio1 (>= 0.3.93), libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libbrlapi0.7, libc6 (>= 2.29), libcacard0 (>= 2.2), libepoxy0 (>= 1.3), libfdt1 (>= 1.5.1), libgbm1 (>= 7.11~1), libgcc-s1 (>= 4.7), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.12), libibverbs1 (>= 28), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libnettle7, libnuma1 (>= 2.0.11), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.19.6), libpmem1 (>= 1.4), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), librdmacm1 (>= 1.0.15), libsasl2-2 (>= 2.1.27+dfsg), libseccomp2 (>= 2.1.0), libslirp0 (>= 4.0.0), libspice-server1 (>= 0.14.2), libtinfo6 (>= 6), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.22), libusbredirparser1 (>= 0.6), libvirglrenderer1 (>= 0.8.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), qemu-system-common (» 1:2.12~), qemu-system-data (» 1:4.2-3ubuntu6~), ipxe-qemu-256k-compat-efi-roms, seabios (>= 1.10.2-1~), ipxe-qemu (>= 1.0.0+git-20131111.c3d1e78-1~) Recommends: qemu-system-gui (= 1:4.2-3ubuntu6), qemu-utils, ovmf, cpu-checker Suggests: samba, vde2, qemu-block-extra (= 1:4.2-3ubuntu6), sgabios Filename: pool/main/q/qemu/qemu-system-x86_4.2-3ubuntu6_amd64.deb Size: 6740528 MD5sum: ad43a210e3652f69031fbc565c19ff19 SHA1: 7b67b2472198fbe4b1e8b392e7a14d945c8d5064 SHA256: 6d368c35ee64cffe9467f114b67efa41af8334bcf6f8c13722c3f7f5e110e86a 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: i386 x86_64.
In system emulation mode QEMU emulates a full system, including a processor and various peripherals. It enables easier testing and debugging of system code. It can also be used to provide virtual hosting of several virtual machines on a single server.
On x86 host hardware this package also enables KVM kernel virtual machine usage on systems which supports it.
There are three methods to install qemu-system-x86 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qemu-system-x86
Install qemu-system-x86 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qemu-system-x86 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qemu-system-x86
Install qemu-system-x86 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qemu-system-x86
How To Uninstall qemu-system-x86 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the qemu-system-x86 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qemu-system-x86
Uninstall qemu-system-x86 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qemu-system-x86 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
Remove qemu-system-x86 Configurations and Data
To remove qemu-system-x86 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qemu-system-x86
Remove qemu-system-x86 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qemu-system-x86 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qemu-system-x86
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-x86 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
