Booting VM (QEMU Linux Intel)

After obtaining a working image and converting it to a QEMU friendly format with qemu-img, you can run qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm -cpu host -m 8G -smp 2 -hda sonicDump.img -M q35

adjust -m to how much memory you want to allocate.

Notes: no version will launch because QEMU doesn't provide 3D acceleration in windows, however you can explore the operating system. The shell (HKCU) is set to stall_bootstrapper.exe, change this to explorer.exe to get a normal system experience.

Amd CPUs seem to have issues, you can try and play around with -cpu to find what works for you

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