QEMU on Windows

Download the QEMU program (from http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/) and install it into a directory on Windows. I use C:\QEMU.

Verify that C:\QEMU is in the path

Create a "base" directory to handle all your Virutal Machines. In my case, I selected C:\Virtual. I also create a subdirectory for each virtual machine I'm going to build.

Create a base directory for the ISO images (CD-ROM images). You'll need this path for the batch file.

Create a batch file (.CMD extension) to launch your virtual machine. Below is my batch file (AKA, a script) to launch Damn Small Linux (DSL) version 1.5.

REM Start qemu on windows.

@ECHO OFF

TITLE DSL v1.5

pushd c:\qemu7

qemu.exe -L . -m 128 -hda \Virtual\dsl-1.5.dsk -cdrom c:\iso\dsl-1.5.iso -boot d -enable-audio -macaddr 00:0E:35:58:71:6C -localtime

TITLE Virtual

popd

CLS

EXIT