How To Install qemu-system-x86-xen on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023  (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-x86-xen on Ubuntu.

What is qemu-system-x86-xen

qemu-system-x86-xen is:

QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports i386 and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.

This package provides the full system emulation binaries to emulate the following x86 hardware: .

In comparison to the main qemu-system-x86 this package has xen support enabled, but is only maintained as universe package. Qemu with xen support is needed to run Xen in HVM mode. For any other use case you should install and use qemu-system-x86 instead.

There are three methods to install qemu-system-x86-xen on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install qemu-system-x86-xen Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install qemu-system-x86-xen using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install qemu-system-x86-xen

Install qemu-system-x86-xen Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install qemu-system-x86-xen using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install qemu-system-x86-xen

Install qemu-system-x86-xen Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install qemu-system-x86-xen using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install qemu-system-x86-xen

How To Uninstall qemu-system-x86-xen on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the qemu-system-x86-xen package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove qemu-system-x86-xen

Uninstall qemu-system-x86-xen And Its Dependencies

To uninstall qemu-system-x86-xen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove qemu-system-x86-xen

Remove qemu-system-x86-xen Configurations and Data

To remove qemu-system-x86-xen configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge qemu-system-x86-xen

Remove qemu-system-x86-xen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove qemu-system-x86-xen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qemu-system-x86-xen

Dependencies

qemu-system-x86-xen have the following dependencies:

• libaio1
• libc6
• libfdt1
• libfuse3-3
• libgcc-s1
• libglib2.0-0
• libgnutls30
• libibverbs1
• libjpeg8
• libnettle8
• libnuma1
• libpixman-1-0
• libpmem1
• libpng16-16
• librdmacm1
• libsasl2-2
• libseccomp2
• libslirp0
• libudev1
• liburing2
• libxendevicemodel1
• libxenevtchn1
• libxenforeignmemory1
• libxengnttab1
• libxenmisc4.16
• libxenstore4
• libxentoolcore1
• libzstd1
• zlib1g

References

• qemu-system-x86-xen website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qemu-system-x86-xen package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.