Installing kali 32 bit linux on x86 64 bit qemu host

[Georgi Guninski]

#Installing kali 32 bit linux on x86 64 bit qemu host

#kali has prebuilt qemu images, check for newer versions
$wget https://cdimage.kali.org/kali-2024.3/kali-linux-2024.3-qemu-i386.7z
#veriy checksum from the web
$sudo dnf install p7zip

$7za e kali-linux-2024.3-qemu-i386.7z

#~/vms$ ls -lth kali-linux-2024.3-qemu-i386.*
#-rw-r--r--. 1 joro joro 2.7G Aug 19 03:17 kali-linux-2024.3-qemu-i386.7z
#-rw-r--r--. 1 joro joro 13G Aug 19 02:52 kali-linux-2024.3-qemu-i386.qcow2

$ qemu-system-i386 -m 4096 -smp 2 -accel kvm -drive
file=./kali-linux-2024.3-qemu-i386.qcow2

#4GB RAM, 2 cores

#User: kali
#Password kali

#Done in about 30 minutes

[Dima Pasechnik]

there are detailed qemu settings up instructions by gnulib project here
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib/maint-tools.git;a=blob_plain;f=platforms/environments/qemu-environments.txt;hb=HEAD>