Latest Qemu Installation in Fedora – Step-by-step

Installing

2. 2. Pre-Installation Checks

   Then Check KVM Virtualization is available
   With:

   egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

   If in Output > 0 then your Processor support Hardware Virtualization!
   (But on a PC you may have still to enable it on BIOS…)

   Finally, if the answer is negative you can still use KVM but only in a Slow mode…

3. 3. Installing Dependencies

   Then to Install Required Software
   So the Required Packages:

   sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"

   Then again:

   sudo dnf install git glib2-devel libfdt-devel pixman-devel zlib-devel bzip2 ninja-build python3 bison flex

   Moreover, the Recommended ones:

   sudo dnf install libaio-devel libcap-ng-devel libiscsi-devel capstone-devel \
                    gtk3-devel vte291-devel ncurses-devel \
                    libseccomp-devel nettle-devel libattr-devel libjpeg-devel \
                    brlapi-devel libgcrypt-devel lzo-devel snappy-devel \
                    librdmacm-devel libibverbs-devel cyrus-sasl-devel libpng-devel \
                    libuuid-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel curl-devel libssh-devel \
                    systemtap-sdt-devel libusbx-devel

4. 4. Downloading QEMU

   Download QEMU for Fedora GNU/Linux:

   QEMU tar.xz Archive

   Downloading QEMU Source Code for Fedora.

5. 5. Extracting QEMU Archive

   Then Extract QEMU into /tmp Directory
   If it does Not Open automatically then Double-Click on File Manager

   
   Or from Command Line:

   tar xvf ~/Downloads/qemu*.tar.xz -C /tmp/

   (But if downloaded with Firefox it may be instead into /tmp/mozilla*)
   Finally, if yuo are in Trouble to Find Out it on Terminal See: How to Access Downloads Folder from Browser.

6. 6. Installing QEMU

   Then to Install QEMU on Fedora
   First, access the Download location by default with:

   cd ~/Downloads/quemu*/

   But if you are in Trouble to Find it out on Terminal then See: How to Access Downloads Folder from Browser.
   And then to Configure it play:

   ./configure

   Next, to Make it:

   make

   Or to do it Quicker using your full Computing power:

   make -j $(nproc)

   Now take a very Long Brake and just leave it achieving the 10000 Steps… :)
   Finally, to Setup it just run:

   sudo make install

   

   Congratulations, you are Done! :)