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Just messing around with quemu, and needed to install a VM easily onto a physical disk. The magic command was this:

sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -drive file=/dev/sdb,format=raw -cdrom /tmp/ubuntu-15.04-desktop-amd64.iso -boot d -net nic,model=virtio -net user

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