Getting ready

For this recipe, we are going to need the following:

• The QEMU binaries, provided after following the Installing and configuring QEMU recipe from Chapter 1, Getting Started with QEMU and KVM
• The custom raw Debian image we built in the Installing custom OS on the image with debootstrap recipe from the previous chapter, or any other virtual machine image, in either raw or qcow2 format
• The virsh tool provided by completing the Installing and configuring libvirt recipe
• A running libvirt KVM instance