MacOS and Windows VMs with QuickEmu

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MacOS and Windows VMs with QuickEmu

Introduction

We show how to deploy MacOS and Windows VMs with QuickEmu.

Install QuickEmu


sudo apt update

sudo apt install software-properties-common

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:flexiondotorg/quickemu

sudo apt update

sudo apt install quickemu

For more info on how to install, read this.

MacOS

Create VM

  • Download the ISO image

quickget macos sonoma
  • Start the virtual machine

quickemu --vm macos-sonoma.conf

Create snapshot

Once you’re satisfied with a VM configuration, you can create a snapshot to always come back to this stage.

Here we use snapshot_macos as the snapshot name.


quickemu --vm macos-sonoma.conf --snapshot create snapshot_macos

List snapshots

You can list all snapshots of a given VM.


quickemu --vm macos-sonoma.conf --snapshot info

Start from snapshot

To start from a given snapshot, use the following template, where we deploy snapshot_macos as an example.


quickemu --vm macos-sonoma.conf --snapshot apply snapshot_macos
quickemu --vm macos-sonoma.conf

Windows

Create VM


quickget windows 10

quickemu --vm windows-10.conf

Create snapshot

Once you’re satisfied with a VM configuration, you can create a snapshot to always come back to this stage.

Here we use snapshot_windows as the snapshot name.


quickemu --vm windows-10.conf --snapshot create snapshot_windows

List snapshots

You can list all snapshots of a given VM.


quickemu --vm windows-10.conf --snapshot info

Start from snapshot

To start from a given snapshot, use the following template, where we deploy snapshot_windows as an example.


quickemu --vm windows-10.conf --snapshot apply snapshot_windows
quickemu --vm windows-10.conf