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Tools

QEMU/KVM (packages qemu, libvirtd, virt-manager, and possibly qemu-arch-extra)
Windows CD image
Universal video drivers

n.b., to use virt-manager, the user needs to be part of the libvirt group:

# gpasswd -a $(whoami) libvirt

Useful commands

Mount a Qemu image

# modprobe --first-time nbd
# qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 <path of the .qcow2 file>

Now /dev/mbd0 is a block device connected to the qcow2 file.

To disconnect use:

# qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0