Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-17 Thread George at Clug
On Saturday, 18-01-2025 at 18:01 Richard Hector wrote: > On 8/01/25 12:43, gene heskett wrote: > > Basically, anything starting with a k came from ingo klockers kde desktop. > > Um - I can find one person called Ingo Klöcker, who doesn't appear to > have anything to do with KDE. Wikipedia says

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-17 Thread Richard Hector
On 8/01/25 12:43, gene heskett wrote: Basically, anything starting with a k came from ingo klockers kde desktop. Um - I can find one person called Ingo Klöcker, who doesn't appear to have anything to do with KDE. Wikipedia says KDE was founded by Matthias Ettrich. Richard

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-08 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 1/8/25 00:43, gene heskett wrote: On 1/7/25 15:12, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible alternative to virtualbox.  While doing a bit of work on the new machine, I did a quick search using both of those terms in Synaptic Package Manag

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-08 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: > On 1/7/25 15:12, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible > > alternative to virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new > > machine, I did a quick search using both of those terms in Synaptic > > Package Manager,

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-07 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 07 January 2025 03:42:44 pm George at Clug wrote: > > On Wednesday, 08-01-2025 at 07:15 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible > > alternative to virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new machine, I > > did a quick sear

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-07 Thread gene heskett
On 1/7/25 15:12, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible alternative to virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new machine, I did a quick search using both of those terms in Synaptic Package Manager, also updating a couple of files

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-07 Thread jman
"Roy J. Tellason, Sr." writes: A pointer to any documentation on these so I can get a good idea of how to set it up would also be helpful. As already mentioned libvirt is definitively the way to go but the documentation is not easy to digest. At the time (2020) I picked some parts from the

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-07 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 1/7/25 21:42, George at Clug wrote: # export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin # apt install qemu-system libvirt-daemon-system virt-manager # adduser libvirt # adduser kvm I never had any problems without being member of group 'kvm'. But maybe that's because I do everything KVM related through libvirt.

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-07 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 1/7/25 21:15, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible alternative to virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new machine, I did a quick search using both of those terms in Synaptic Package Manager, also updating a couple of files a

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-07 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 15:15:14 -0500 "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > > [...] These searches each returned a nonntrivial list of > packages, but none of them was named kvm or qemu, so I must be > missing something here. Can any of you guys help me out? The package names switched some years ago II

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-07 Thread George at Clug
On Wednesday, 08-01-2025 at 07:15 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible alternative > to virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new machine, I did a quick > search using both of those terms in Synaptic Package Manager, also updat

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible alternative > to virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new machine, I did a quick > search using both of those terms in Synaptic Package Manager, also updating

Virt manager and dependencies to install kvm/quemu [WAS Re: kvm/qemu]

2025-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 03:15:14PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible alternative > to virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new machine, I did a quick > search using both of those terms in Synaptic Package Manager, also

Re: KVM/QEMU/libvirt, and automatically release mouse pointer in Debian guest

2024-07-29 Thread George at Clug
On Monday, 29-07-2024 at 14:13 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have KVM/QEMU/libvirt installed to manage my VMs. I have a Debian 12 > guest, x86_64, fully patched. The Debian guest has qemu-guest-agent > installed. The qemu-guest-agent service is running on the Debian > guest. > > T

Re: KVM/QEMU/libvirt, and automatically release mouse pointer in Debian guest

2024-07-29 Thread didier gaumet
Le 29/07/2024 à 06:13, Jeffrey Walton a écrit : Hi Everyone, I have KVM/QEMU/libvirt installed to manage my VMs. I have a Debian 12 guest, x86_64, fully patched. The Debian guest has qemu-guest-agent installed. The qemu-guest-agent service is running on the Debian guest. The problem is, the Deb

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives (Solved)

2017-08-20 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all I finally got kvm up and running with Debian 9 installed. Per Bob Weber, I seem to have missed one of about 5 must have packages. Once up, I had the problem of getting my network printer to work. Cups must be installed and to get the proper drivers for my printer, I needed to install h

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-18 Thread Bob Weber
On 8/18/17 4:08 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > I really appreciate all of you quick responses. > > For some unknown reason, when I searched the  Debian database virt came up > empty. This time it didn't. So, at this point, its go RTFM. > > The manual will probably clear it up but When trying to run virt-m

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-18 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 18-08-17, Gary Roach wrote: > I really appreciate all of you quick responses. > > For some unknown reason, when I searched the Debian database virt came up > empty. This time it didn't. So, at this point, its go RTFM. > > The manual will probably clear it up but When trying to run virt-manage

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-18 Thread Gary Roach
I really appreciate all of you quick responses. For some unknown reason, when I searched the Debian database virt came up empty. This time it didn't. So, at this point, its go RTFM. The manual will probably clear it up but When trying to run virt-manager, I did get the following error: una

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-18 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 17-08-17, Gary Roach wrote: > Sorry bob but the debian 9 archives doesn't include libvirtd or anything > equivalent. I have been trying to use virt-manager but have gotten a bit > confused. The screen shot is attached. I have two hard drives. One is a 160 > Gb boot drive called bootdisk and ano

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/17/17, Gary Roach wrote: > On 08/17/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Weber wrote: >> >> Most debian installs work easily with a 20 or 20 GB virtual drive. You >> create >> the file necessary with a command like this: >> >> qemu-img create -f qcow2 /home/img/Mymachine/drive.img 30G >> >> This assumes that

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Richard Hector
On 18/08/17 13:12, Gary Roach wrote: > On 08/17/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Weber wrote: >> Looks like the packages >> to get you started are libvirt-daemon-system and virt-manager. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> ...bob >> >> >> > Sorry bob but the debian 9 archives doesn't include libvirtd or > anything equ

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Phil Wyett
On Thu, 2017-08-17 at 18:12 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > On 08/17/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Weber wrote: > > On 8/17/17 1:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > > Usually the qemu vm runs from a file (created by qemu-img) set up as a disk > > drive by qemu.  I use Virtual Machine Manager (along with libvirtd) which > >

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/17/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Weber wrote: On 8/17/17 1:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Usually the qemu vm runs from a file (created by qemu-img) set up as a disk drive by qemu. I use Virtual Machine Manager (along with libvirtd) which can do all the hard stuff for you. I usually make my own virtual

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Have you passed the appropriate options to QEMU? You *must* use “-drive file=...”. For example “-drive file=/dev/sda”. Read the QEMU manual for details. QEMU does not gives the the guest is access to host devices by default; that would be a very high security risk. On 17/08/17 12:06, Gary Roach wr

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Bob Weber
On 8/17/17 1:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > Debian 9 (Stretch) system > KDE Desktop > MSI970A-G43 motherboard > AMD FX 4350 processor - not overclocked > > Ive been trying to get a virtual machine set up and have run into problems > with both virtualbox and kvm/qemu packages. I have a very

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 17-08-17, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > Debian 9 (Stretch) system > KDE Desktop > MSI970A-G43 motherboard > AMD FX 4350 processor - not overclocked > > Ive been trying to get a virtual machine set up and have run into problems > with both virtualbox and kvm/qemu packages. I have a very messy

Re: KVM Qemu libvirtd virtual bridged with bond advanced-alb

2017-02-17 Thread Mimiko
On 16.04.2016 17:09, Mimiko wrote: Hello. Recently I started to use qemu-kvm for virtualisation. I've setup a bridged network and use it in virtual machine: default test hvm When the bond used in the bridge setup