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 a custom OS on the image with debootstrap recipe from the previous chapter.
• The virsh tool provided by completing the Installing and configuring libvirt recipe.
• The defined instance from the Defining KVM instances recipe in a shut off state.