Installing ArcaOS on QEMU with Windows 10 Host

Create Empty VM HDD
 @echo off rem ================================== rem Replace with your values rem ================================== set "QEMUDIR=C:\Program Files\qemu"

rem ================================== rem Safety net rem ================================== if not exist hda.img (   rem CREATE a virtual hard disk     "%QEMUDIR%\qemu-img.exe" create hda.img 40G ) else (    echo file hda.img already exist. Delete or move and try again.    goto:eof ) 

Run Installation from ISO
 @echo off

rem ================================== rem Replace with your values rem ================================== set "QEMUDIR=C:\Program Files\qemu" set "ISOFILE=ArcaOS.iso"

rem ================================== rem You can add a w suffix to this if rem you don't want a console rem ================================== set "QEMUBIN=qemu-system-x86_64.exe"

rem ================================== rem Run the virtual machine rem ================================== start "QEMU" "%QEMUDIR%\%QEMUBIN%" -drive file=hda.img,index=0,media=disk,format=raw -cdrom %ISOFILE% -m 2G -L Bios -usbdevice mouse -usbdevice keyboard -boot menu=on -rtc base=localtime,clock=host -parallel none -serial none -name os2 -no-acpi -no-hpet -no-reboot



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