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1. QEMU VIRTUAL MACHINE HOW TO
2. QEMU VIRTUAL MACHINE INSTALL
3. QEMU VIRTUAL MACHINE UPDATE
4. QEMU VIRTUAL MACHINE 32 BIT

Just knowing Libvirt didn’t answer how to get it going as it wasn’t called that in the repositories so a bit of searching and reading documentation I was able to get it all together in my head and take some notes. I learned of it as Libvirt, libvirt is the name of the directory that houses my virtual machine drives (~/.local/share/libvirt). The name of this application stack is a bit confusing. It is a bit of extra work but worth it for the reliability and increased performance Virtual Machine Manger provides. Thankfully a little bit of symbolic linking to a 3rd, removable, drive and all the qcow2 files are available. There isn’t an option to have a dynamically resizing disk so I have to be more careful with the number of disk images I keep on my primary drive in my /home directory. Virtual Manager is a GTK application so it is not as nice looking as the Virtualbox Qt, although at the time of writing this, I see there is a project on Github called qt-virt-manager. I am not completely sure of the technical reasons as to why but it seems as though this project is less affected by updates to the Linux Kernel. I don’t have any issues with any updates that roll down breaking this utility. I am not going to go into detail on all the features as most of the time, the defaults work well for my use cases. The interface, although initially a bit overwhelming, is pretty great. I do have to preface that this is not the experience I get from all desktop environments but Plasma does run quite well. I do appreciate this performance enhancement. It has a kind of raw, running on “bare metal” feel as opposed to that slightly sluggish virtualized feel to which I am more accustomed. Qemu with Libvirt just feels much faster than Virtualbox. This is also the part of the post you can point and laugh at my old, non-high-DPI screens to which I will respond, “my old hardware still works, thank you very much.” What I Like Although I have not played with this as much, my understanding is you can use other CPU architectures here as well.

QEMU VIRTUAL MACHINE 32 BIT

If you are running a 32 bit version of Linux, you can select that architecture instead. Since I am installing from an ISO, I selected the first option. Next step is to create a new virtual machine.

Here is how you get back to it.įor my purposes, I am using the QEMU/KVM user session as the Hypervisor. I also selected the Autoconnect tick box to ensure that when I started Virt-Manager, it would make this connection.

Depending on how your system is out of the gate, or if you canceled this operation. After doing a little reading and digging to figure out what was the best solution for me in my use case, which is, on a desktop testing other distributions or software in a virtual machine.

QEMU VIRTUAL MACHINE INSTALL

Sudo zypper install libvirt qemu virt-manager libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu qemu-kvm Setup I found I had to install a few things to make this work. The application is virt-manager which is libvirt and the application title bar is Virtual Machine Manager so maybe it goes by them all or I can’t make heads or tails out of the name. Quite honestly, I am not even sure what to call the application stack.

QEMU VIRTUAL MACHINE UPDATE

One of the beauties of a rolling distribution is that sometimes you are forced to use a new piece of software… My regular Virtual Machine application, VirtualBox was non-functional for a few days due to a kernel update and some sort of mismatch with the kernel driver or something… The positive is, I got to know a new Virtual Machine Application, Libvirt with QEMU/KVM.