How to run SONiC on a virtual machine using QEMU on Windows?

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This document describes the implementation of SONiC on virtual machine using windows machine and qemu. 

Go to: https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/ to download qemu-w64-setup-xxx.exe and install it to your windows machine.

2. Download sonic prebuilt image

Go to: https://sonic-build.azurewebsites.net/ui/sonic/Pipelines, find master "vs" platform and click "BuildHistory":

On the next page find newest build with succeeded result and click Artifacts:

On the next page click sonic-buildimage.vs:

On the next page find the sonic-vs.img.gz file and download it:

Extract sonic-vs-img.gz to a folder in your machine. Example: c:\sonic-vs.img

Open a command line and run the command:

"c:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-x86_64.exe" -name sonic-simulator_1 -m 2048M -smp cpus=2 -drive file=c:\sonic-vs.img,index=0,media=disk,id=drive0 -serial telnet:127.0.0.1:5001,server,nowait -monitor tcp:127.0.0.1:44001,server,nowait -device e1000,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0

You can log in using default credentials (admin/YourPaSsWoRd).