run kali os from local directory with qemu

fetch_kali.sh

#!/bin/bash
# https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-virtual-machines
# qemu-kali.sh — boots kali-linux-2025.2-qemu-amd64.qcow2 from the local mir directory

IMG="kali-linux-2025.2-qemu-amd64.qcow2"
IMG_PATH="./mir/$IMG"
RAM="24G"
VRAM="1G"

# sanity check
if [ ! -f "$IMG_PATH" ]; then
	echo "Error: Kali image not found at $IMG_PATH ❌"
	echo "Make sure you've got $IMG in your mir/ directory!!!"
	exit 1
fi

qemu-system-x86_64 \
	-enable-kvm \
	-machine q35 \
	-smp 4 \
	-m $RAM \
	-cpu host \
	-net nic,model=virtio \
	-net user,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 \
	-device virtio-vga-gl,hostmem=$VRAM,blob=true,venus=true \
	-vga none \
	-display gtk,gl=on,show-cursor=on \
	-usb -device usb-tablet \
	-object memory-backend-memfd,id=mem1,size=$RAM \
	-machine memory-backend=mem1 \
	-hda "$IMG_PATH"