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Quick start

Boot DurgX in a virtual machine in about five minutes.

You need a computer with QEMU installed and the DurgX ISO. Nothing is installed on your computer and no disk is changed.

Steps

  1. Download durgx.iso (about 4.2 MB) from the download button on the home page, into a folder of your choice.
  2. Install QEMU. On Ubuntu or Debian run sudo apt install qemu-system-x86. On macOS run brew install qemu. On Windows use the installer from qemu.org.
  3. Open a terminal in the folder that contains the ISO and run the command below.
terminal
qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom durgx.iso -smp 4 -m 512M -nographic

What you should see

A few lines of boot messages appear in your terminal. They look similar to this (exact wording can differ between builds):

serial output
Limine v11 - bootloader handoff OK
smp: 4 cores online
init: root task started
durgx: boot complete

To quit QEMU, press Ctrl-A, release, then press X.

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