The inx-*-qemu.bz2 files are compressed qemu virtual machines. You can download the compressed "machine" and point qemu at it after decompressing it - bunzip2 inx-rc2-qemu.bz2 for example. Then run something like qemu -m 256 -soundhw all -hda inx-rc2-qemu -boot c When you log in you get the corresponding menu (see end of ~/.profile). Log in as: inx Password: inx Might be an idea to change the password with "passwd inx" to something sane, once you have it running ;) The "machines" are sparse files expandable up to 8 Gigabytes.