before that we need to extract installed kernel and initram disk from qcow2 disk image into current directory. Warning message is pretty straight forward after installation we have to append correct kernel argument value for root partition with -append=“root=”. | /dev/sda1 and root=/dev/sda1 passed as a kernel argument. | You will need to boot manually with the kernel on partition | | because your specific architecture doesn't support a boot loader yet. | No boot loader has been installed, either because you chose not to or | See the table below to know the usage of each package. It is also a debian based distro so it should also work on other debian based distro as well for example Ubuntu and Parrot OS. I am targeting kali linux users for this tutorial since it’s major choice among cyber security folks. QEMU is a open source virtual machine software it emulates the machine’s processor through dynamic binary translation and provides a set of different hardware and device models for the machine, enabling it to run a variety of guest operating systems.īefore continuing this tutorial you will need to install certain packages in your system. This tutorial is combination of all other tutorial and documentation that I read to achieve this kind of straight forward setup. So that’s exact reason for wirting this article giving clear explanation about everything you will need to know inorder to have ARM and MIPS based Qemu virtual machine with full NAT networking support. There already lots of tutorial out there on how to setup ARM and MIPS based machines inside Qemu but I personally feel those are incomplete guides and does not touch the subject deeply.

After poking around entire internet for a month, I finally managed to learn how Qemu works in general.

Qemu mips system tutorial