01 Installation

Quickemu is available in the repositories of the following distros (packaging status by Repology.org):

Arch Linux

Quickemu is available from the AUR (Arch user repository), and can be installed via any AUR helper. Assuming your AUR helper is yay, Run the following command:

yay -Sy quickemu

Debian (and derivatives)

A .deb package is available for Debian and derivatives on this project's GitHub releases page. Download the .deb and install it with apt-get.

sudo apt-get install ./quickemu_x.y.z-1_all.deb

Ubuntu

Quickemu is available from a PPA for Ubuntu users. The Quickemu PPA also includes a backport of QEMU 6.0.0 for 20.04 (Focal) and 21.04 (Hirsute). To install Quickemu and all the dependencies, run the following in a terminal:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:flexiondotorg/quickemu
sudo apt update
sudo apt install quickemu

NixOS hosts

To quickly try quickemu:

nix-shell -p quickemu

To install via Nix profile:

nix-env -iA pkgs.quickemu

To install via NixOS config:

# /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
{pkgs, ...}: {
   environment.systemPackages = with pkgs;
     quickemu
   };
}

To install via Flakes:

# TODO (flake users, please add an example!)

Any Linux (installing from source)

git clone --filter=blob:none https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
cd quickemu

When installing from source, you will need to install the following requirements manually:

• QEMU (6.0.0 or newer) with GTK, SDL, SPICE & VirtFS support
• bash (4.0 or newer)
• Coreutils
• curl
• EDK II
• grep
• jq
• procps
• python3
• chunkcheck
• mkisofs
• usbutils
• util-linux
• sed
• socat
• spicy
• swtpm
• xdg-user-dirs
• xrandr
• zsync
• unzip

These examples may save a little typing:

Install requirements on Debian

This also applies to derivatives:

sudo apt install qemu bash coreutils ovmf grep jq procps python3 genisoimage usbutils util-linux sed socat spice-client-gtk libtss2-tcti-swtpm0 xdg-user-dirs zsync unzip

Install requirements on Fedora

sudo dnf install qemu bash coreutils edk2-tools grep jq procps python3 genisoimage usbutils util-linux sed socat spice-gtk-tools swtpm xdg-user-dirs xrandr unzip

Install on macOS

macOS support is a work in progress. See issue 447 for more information.

brew install qemu bash coreutils grep jq [email protected] cdrtools gnu-sed spice-gtk zsync