The trick is to make one folder that has everything necessary for both platforms, without so much as requiring pre-installed QEMU software. I will never be “forking the code” so to speak, with file copying. The advantage to running the virtual computer directly off the USB drive, albeit a bit slower, is that there will only ever be one master instance, and all changes I make, whether from home on my Mac or from work on my PC will be to that master harddisk.raw file. To this end, I’m copying the files over to the Mac to do some setup work, but plan on copying the files back onto the USB drive, and then forever forward run it directly from the USB drive. It’s just that the Mac and PC have different ways of launching programs, so there will be two icons. Either way, it’s the identical VM running. The idea now is that I will make one folder from which I can click one icon to fire up the VM on the Mac, and a different icon to fire up the VM on the PC. In short, everything worked fine up until the point of making it a dependency-less carry-around “file”.
This post will cover that process, and how to hack a Mac OS X bundle or package to execute the precise QEMU command that we need. I carried my QEMU folder on my keychain USB drive and popped it into my Mac and copied over the folder, installed some software, created a new configuration, and fired up the VM. I took my work home last night to test the portability of this QEMU virtual computer to my iMac. My goal was to (accomplished) make the same stand-alone virtual machine run with a double-click and no install from the desktop of either Linux, Mac or Windows. Let’s get it out of the way: this article is about Q, the still-viable, but rapidly becoming out-of-date version that takes advantage of Mac’s user interface, and my experience getting it working and dissecting the way it can package stand-alone copies that don’t require installing the whole package. Welcome everyone searching for qemu on the Mac.
Note: You can instantly download and start playing around with QEMU and Linux on Mac OS X using my own respin distribution of Linux called Levinux. How To Use QEMU on Mac OS X by Mike Levin SEO & Datamaster,
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