Kindof annoying, when I was hoping for a cheap, low-resource local VM.

It looks like QEMU uses nearly a gigabyte of RAM for its overhead. Note that the ssh port is 2223 for this one. One trouble with the headless version is (big surprise…), there’s no real indication (besides the the task manager) of whether it’s running and if it’s finished turning on yet. no-acpi -no-hpet -no-reboot -device e1000, netdev = user.0 ^ rtc base = localtime, clock = host -parallel none -serial none -name alpine ^ usbdevice mouse -usbdevice keyboard -boot menu = on -nographic ^ drive file = alpine.img, index = 0, media = disk, format = raw -m 128 -L Bios ^ Start 'QEMU' 'C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-x86_64w.exe' ^