Deploy with QEMU

A pre-installed LabxDB image for QEMU is available to easily run LabxDB. It provides a fully functional LabxDB based on the ArchLinux operating system.

Start virtual machine

To get the LabxDB virtual machine running:

1. Install QEMU
2. Download the LabxDB virtual machine labxdb.qcow2.zst
3. Unzip the virtual machine using Zstandard:

   zstd -d labxdb.qcow2.zst
   

4. Start LabxDB virtual machine. For example:

   qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35,accel=kvm \
                      -cpu host \
                      -enable-kvm \
                      -m 2000 \
                      -smp 1 \
                      -drive file=labxdb.qcow2,if=virtio,cache=writeback,discard=ignore,format=qcow2 \
                      -device virtio-net,netdev=n1 \
                      -netdev user,id=n1,hostfwd=tcp::8022-:22,hostfwd=tcp::8081-:8081
   

Connect to LabxDB

The LabxDB client should be available at http://localhost:8081.

Configure the virtual machine

To admin the virtual, SSH server is running on the virtual machine. To connect using SSH client:

ssh -p 8022 root@127.0.0.1

The pre-configured root password is archadmin.