Installing as guest in Quickemu

Quickemu is a wrapper for the excellent QEMU that automatically “does the right thing” when creating virtual machines. No requirement for exhaustive configuration options. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu takes care of the rest:

• quickget automatically downloads the upstream OS and creates the configuration;
• quickemu enumerates your hardware and launches the virtual machine with the optimum configuration best suited to your computer.

You can install Quickemu in your host as described in the official documentation.

Note

If you are installing quickemu on an Arch-based machine, install qemu-desktop or qemu-full as dependency.

Once Quickemu is installed, there are two simple steps to create and run Athena OS:

• quickget automatically downloads the ISO image for Athena OS and creates a configuration file for the virtual machine:

  quickget athenaos v23.11

• quickemu starts the virtual machine using the configuration file created by quickget:

  quickemu --vm athenaos-v23.11.conf

Tip

If your host is a Linux or MacOS virtual machine, you need nested virtualization by Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI. To enable it, be sure that virtualization is enabled on your BIOS. If this Linux or MacOS virtual machine where to install Quickemu is running on a Windows host, disable Hyper-V by searching and opening Turn Windows features on and off and uncheck Hyper-V entry. Open CMD as Administrator and run:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

Then, open PowerShell as Administrator and run:

Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-All

Finally, reboot. Successively, you need to enable nested virtualization on your virtualization software. Go to your Virtual Machine software settings:

VMware Workstation

Hardware tab -> Processors -> check Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI.

Oracle VirtualBox

System tab -> Processor tab -> check Enable Nested VT-x/AMD-V.

Now quickemu machine can be virtualized inside your virtual machine.