How to Install qemu-system-x86 software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install qemu-system-x86 software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

qemu-system-x86 software package provides QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86), you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qemu-system-x86 

qemu-system-x86 is installed in your system.

Make ensure the qemu-system-x86 package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep qemu-system-x86 *

You will get with qemu-system-x86 package name, version, architecture and description in a table

qemu-system-x86 package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Miscellaneous
Package qemu-system-x86
Version 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.30 [amd64,
Description QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86)
Sub Section misc


See Also, How to uninstall or remove qemu-system-x86 software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?