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Qemu is an Emulation tool for Linux and supports multiple processors and operating systems.

It's homepage on the web is at http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

A useful page for installing other operating systems on qemu is http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/40

See also: QemuNotes

Here is how IanMcDonald is getting qemu running Linux.

Create a disk image like:

qemu-img create file1.img 5G

which creates an image of 5 Gigabyte.

Start qemu as follows:

qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cdrom  -hda hd.img

Install the operating system. And then start qemu as below:

qemu -hda hd.img -boot c

However this created problems getting files in and out so better to create a loopback file system. For more on this see UserModeLinux.