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kannankvs edited this page Nov 10, 2021 · 3 revisions

SONIC on virtual machine for Windows

This document describes the implementation of SONiC on virtual machine using windows machine and qemu. Please find the step by step on the implementation below,

  1. Download and install QEMU for windows
  2. Download SONiC image
  3. Initialize SONiC in QEMU

1. Download and install QEMU for windows

Go to: https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/ to download qemu-w64-setup-xxx.exe and install it to your windows machine.

2. Download sonic prebuilt image: Go to: https://sonic-build.azurewebsites.net/ui/sonic/pipelines/142/builds/49244/artifacts/94210?branchName=master&artifactName=sonic-buildimage.vs and download target/sonic-vs.img.gz

Extract sonic-vs-img.gz to a folder in your machine. Example: d:\sonic-vs.img

3. Start sonic image

Open a command line and run the command:
"c:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-x86_64.exe" -name sonic-simulator_1 -m 2048M -smp cpus=2 -drive file=d:\sonic-vs.img,index=0,media=disk,id=drive0 -serial telnet:127.0.0.1:5001,server,nowait -monitor tcp:127.0.0.1:44001,server,nowait -device e1000,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0

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