linux:apps:kvm
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KVM
Installation
Install all the required for the installation of Qemu, KVM hypervisor, and Libvirt
# apt install qemu-system libvirt-daemon-system qemu-utils virt-manager
- qemu-system: is an open source virtualizer that provides hardware emulation for the KVM hypervisor. It acts as a virtual machine monitor together with the KVM kernel modules, and emulates the hardware for a full system such as a PC and its associated peripherals.
- virt-manager: Virt-Manager is a graphical user interface (GUI) tool for managing virtual machines through libvirt-daemon.
- libvirt-daemon-system: provides API libraries that enables GUI apps such as virt-manager to communicate with libvirtd daemon, a system service libvirtd , and a virsh CLI tool
- qemu-utils: Various utilities e.g. for manipulating disk images
- virtinst: Allows to create Virtual Machines (VMs) from the command-line.
Verify that the virtualization daemon, libvritd-daemon, is operating before moving on. Execute the command to achieve this.
# systemctl status libvirtd
Output:
● libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2023-08-06 10:57:02 CEST; 1min 30s ago
TriggeredBy: ● libvirtd-ro.socket
● libvirtd-admin.socket
● libvirtd.socket
Docs: man:libvirtd(8)
https://libvirt.org
Main PID: 7999 (libvirtd)
Tasks: 19 (limit: 32768)
Memory: 15.7M
CPU: 188ms
CGroup: /system.slice/libvirtd.service
└─7999 /usr/sbin/libvirtd --timeout 120
Aug 06 10:57:02 pcwerkkamer systemd[1]: Starting libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon...
Aug 06 10:57:02 pcwerkkamer systemd[1]: Started libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon.
Check if libvirtd service will start automatically at boot time.
# systemctl is-enabled libvirtd Output: enabled
If disabled run the following command to have it boot automatically:
# systemctl enable --now libvirtd
Use the following command to determine whether the KVM modules are loaded:
$ lsmod | grep -i kvm kvm_intel 380928 0 kvm 1142784 1 kvm_intel irqbypass 16384 1 kvm
In order to manage virtual machines as a regular user, that user needs to be added to the libvirt group:
# adduser <youruser> libvirt
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