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Run qemu emulator linux

To discover the qemu commands that are installed perform the following:

$ ls /usr/bin/qemu-*

Create the virtual image for the system:

$ qemu-img create mint.qcow 5G

"-user -net" is important to have internet access within your new system. "-m 1024" is the Set virtual RAM size (megabytes), default is 128 MB, I chose 1024.

Download iso and put it in the path:

qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom /home/developerthree/Downloads/linuxmint-18-cinnamon-64bit.iso -hda mint.qcow -boot d -net nic -net user -m 1024 -localtime