QEMU

A generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer

Install

  environment = {
    systemPackages = [ pkgs.qemu ];
  };

Quick EMU

Quickly create and run highly optimised desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows; with just two commands.

https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

quickget windows 11
quickemu --vm windows-11.conf

Booting UEFI

To boot UEFI systems using QEMU, the UEFI firmware replacing the BIOS implementation needs to be provided while starting QEMU.

The following installs a script, that always starts QEMU with OVMF firmware implementing UEFI support.

 environment = {
   (pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "qemu-system-x86_64-uefi" ''
     qemu-system-x86_64 \
       -bios ${pkgs.OVMF.fd}/FV/OVMF.fd \
       "$@"
   '')
 };