Debian on Marius' Bloghttps://meschter.me/tags/debian/Recent content in Debian on Marius' BlogHugoen-usSun, 14 Jun 2026 15:50:44 +0200QEMU CLIhttps://meschter.me/posts/qemu-cli/Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:50:44 +0200https://meschter.me/posts/qemu-cli/<h2 id="create-a-basic-debian-13-vm-using-the-qemu-cli">Create a basic Debian 13 VM using the QEMU CLI</h2> <p>I wanted to build my step-by-step understanding of the QEMU CLI.</p> <div class="highlight"><div style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"> <table style="border-spacing:0;padding:0;margin:0;border:0;"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:0;margin:0;border:0;"> <pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 1 </span><span 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style="display:flex;"><span> -accel hvf <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -m 4G <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -drive <span style="color:#66d9ef">if</span><span style="color:#f92672">=</span>pflash,format<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>raw,readonly<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>on,file<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>$HOME/vms/edk2-aarch64-code.fd <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -drive <span style="color:#66d9ef">if</span><span style="color:#f92672">=</span>pflash,format<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>raw,file<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>$HOME/vms/debian-13/efivars.fd <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -drive <span style="color:#66d9ef">if</span><span style="color:#f92672">=</span>none,id<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>hd,file<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>$HOME/vms/debian-13/disk.qcow2,format<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>qcow2 <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -drive <span style="color:#66d9ef">if</span><span style="color:#f92672">=</span>none,id<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>cd,file<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>$HOME/vms/debian-13/debian-13.5.0-arm64-netinst.iso,media<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>cdrom,format<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>raw <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -device virtio-blk-pci,drive<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>hd <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -device virtio-blk-pci,drive<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>cd <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -netdev vmnet-shared,id<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>net0,start-address<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>192.168.222.2,end-address<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>192.168.222.254,subnet-mask<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>255.255.255.0 <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -device virtio-net-pci,netdev<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>net0 <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -device virtio-gpu-pci <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -device qemu-xhci <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -device usb-kbd <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -device usb-tablet <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> -display cocoa </span></span></code></pre></td></tr></table> </div> </div><p>This is the command that gave me a working Debian 13 ARM VM on my M5 MacBook Pro.</p>