Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-17 Thread George at Clug
do with KDE. Wikipedia says KDE was founded by Matthias > Ettrich. The Linux world sure is large. I think I use about 0.001% of what is available. Debian and Debian XFCE, KDE, Virtual-Manager, KVM, QEMU, Firefox, Chromium, apt, Synaptic, rsync are my most cherished programs, as well as al

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
  etc. if that's preferable... Basically, anything starting with a k came from ingo klockers kde desktop. While that's true for some packages, it's not true for others (e.g. related to kernel, kali, kerberos or kubernetes) like KVM. qemu OTOH is a tiny kernel that serves as the bui

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
My list of packages that I use for installing virt-manager and KVM/QEMU is: - qemu-system-x86 # the base - bridge-utils# for bridged networking - libvirt-daemon libvirt-daemon-system # basic libvirt - virt-viewer virt-manager libvirt-clients # libvirt tools - spice-client-gtk # SPICE for disp

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

kvm/qemu

2025-01-07 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
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 and installing one other package. These searches

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

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

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

2024-07-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
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 Debian guest does not automatically release the

Re: Documentation for KVM/QEMU?

2023-11-09 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 11:43 AM Hans wrote: > Maybe the op wqould like to test aqemu, which is a graphical frontend for > qemu > and it might be easier for him to configure. > > In the comparision of aqemu (with using kvm) and VirtualkBox and > Virt-Manager > my feeling was, Virtualbox the slowes

Re: Documentation for KVM/QEMU?

2023-11-06 Thread Hans
Maybe the op wqould like to test aqemu, which is a graphical frontend for qemu and it might be easier for him to configure. In the comparision of aqemu (with using kvm) and VirtualkBox and Virt-Manager my feeling was, Virtualbox the slowest and both Aqemu and VirtManager faster. The latter two

Re: Documentation for KVM/QEMU?

2023-11-06 Thread Stanislav Vlasov
2023-11-06 12:45 GMT+05:00, Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net>: > The three biggest differences I have run across (I used VirtualBox > before): > > 1. Storage pools for disk images. With VirtualBox, you can put a disk > image file anywhere. With KVM, they go into one of a defined set of > po

Re: Documentation for KVM/QEMU?

2023-11-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 6 Nov 2023 01:58 -0500, from noloa...@gmail.com (Jeffrey Walton): > QEMU/KVM is mostly like Virtual Box. If you know Virtual Box, then you > have most of what you need for QEMU/KVM. I agree. Although _some_ terminology differs, and naturally things are organized somewhat differently in the UI,

Re: Documentation for KVM/QEMU? [Re: How to get VMware Player going on Debian 12 bookworm]

2023-11-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 1:36 AM Rick Thomas wrote: > > Can anyone recommend good documentation on KVM/QEMU that would allow me to > get up to speed on it quickly? I don't know if or where good documentation exists. Sorry about that. QEMU/KVM is mostly like Virtual Box. If you kn

Documentation for KVM/QEMU? [Re: How to get VMware Player going on Debian 12 bookworm]

2023-11-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Can anyone recommend good documentation on KVM/QEMU that would allow me to get up to speed on it quickly? Thanks! Rick On Sun, Nov 5, 2023, at 4:33 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 5 Nov 2023 10:56 +0100, from andr...@xss.co.at (Andreas Haumer): >>> PPS: If VMware isn't a g

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

2017-08-20 Thread Gary Roach
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 project (Elmer fem) and want things completely walled off from

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
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 mess

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/q

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/q

kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Gary Roach
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 project (Elmer fem) and want things

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

Re: jessie-kvm-qemu: Win7 guest fails to update

2016-07-14 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:20:01 +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > [Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:06:43 - (UTC)] Frank Miles > wrote: >> I have two jessie systems with kvm-qemu virtualized Windows7 guest OSs. >> These are mostly working well (including guest inter-networking) >> to the e

Re: jessie-kvm-qemu: Win7 guest fails to update

2016-07-14 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:40:02 +0200, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: [snip] > Sounds like general network gremlins... A couple of things that spring > to mind: > > (1) Can the windows boxes ping e.g. 8.8.8.8 ? If not, then network > connectivity is likely broken... That works. > (2) Can the window

Re: jessie-kvm-qemu: Win7 guest fails to update

2016-07-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-07-13, Frank Miles wrote: > I have two jessie systems with kvm-qemu virtualized Windows7 guest OSs. > These are mostly working well (including guest inter-networking) to > the extent that I use Windows, with one glaring exception: when I try > to do a Windows Update - the p

Re: jessie-kvm-qemu: Win7 guest fails to update

2016-07-13 Thread Linux-Fan
[Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:06:43 - (UTC)] Frank Miles wrote: > I have two jessie systems with kvm-qemu virtualized Windows7 guest > OSs. These are mostly working well (including guest inter-networking) > to the extent that I use Windows, with one glaring exception: when I > try to

Re: jessie-kvm-qemu: Win7 guest fails to update

2016-07-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 04:06:43PM -, Frank Miles wrote: > I have two jessie systems with kvm-qemu virtualized Windows7 guest OSs. > These are mostly working well (including guest inter-networking) to > the extent that I use Windows, with one glaring exception: when I try > to

jessie-kvm-qemu: Win7 guest fails to update

2016-07-13 Thread Frank Miles
I have two jessie systems with kvm-qemu virtualized Windows7 guest OSs. These are mostly working well (including guest inter-networking) to the extent that I use Windows, with one glaring exception: when I try to do a Windows Update - the process never finds anything to do, nor does it ever

KVM Qemu libvirtd virtual bridged with bond advanced-alb

2016-04-16 Thread Mimiko
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 function='0x0'/> When the bond used in the bridge setup is set to 802.3ad,