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Add instructions for booting Arch ISO in a VM (#4041) 

* Add instructions to boot ISO in VM

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@ -174,6 +174,34 @@ This will create a *20 GB* `testimage.img` and create a loop device which we can
There's also a [Building and Testing](https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/wiki/Building-and-Testing) guide.<br>
It will go through everything from packaging, building and running *(with qemu)* the installer against a dev branch.
## Boot an Arch ISO image in a VM
You may want to boot an ISO image in a VM to test `archinstall` in there.
* Download the latest [Arch ISO](https://archlinux.org/download/)
* Use the the below command to boot the ISO in a VM
```
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm \
-machine q35,accel=kvm -device intel-iommu \
-cpu host -m 4096 -boot order=d \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF.4m.fd \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF.4m.fd \
-drive file=./archlinux-2025.12.01-x86_64.iso,format=raw
```
HINT: For espeakup support
```
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm \
-machine q35,accel=kvm -device intel-iommu \
-cpu host -m 4096 -boot order=d \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF.4m.fd \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF.4m.fd \
-drive file=./archlinux-2025.12.01-x86_64.iso,format=raw \
-device intel-hda -device hda-duplex,audiodev=snd0 \
-audiodev pa,id=snd0,server=/run/user/1000/pulse/native
```
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