Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Virtualbox on Debian Trixie, Date: 28 Feb 2026 01:30:20 GMT Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <10nmp1b$n560$6@dont-email.me> <0jSdnVQ5tKTYaQL0nZ2dnZfqn_adnZ2d@giganews.com> <10nrq55$1dp51$1@news1.tnib.de> <10nt1sj$1gkkj$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ZvUBGOAjy4TW/Wvw1OzOJA879szeMAHhu7mZkaLxcL6ma5uCnz Cancel-Lock: sha1:9aeP07iEjf3YzPVbvKJ1eiuZRvk= sha256:XFMQfplOPFPVV//2+H2FnUrDYm+Stb1LXbSU5ZvG7g8= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82314 On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:21:23 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > rbowman wrote: >>On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:03:17 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >>> rbowman wrote: >>>>'sudo apt -install virt-manager' pulls down all the necessary >>>>packages. >>>>'sudo usermod -a -G libvirt $(whoami)' >>>> >>>>Virtual Machine Manager shows up under Systems Tools. >>> >>> I THINK that you also need to install the correct qemu-system package >>> (I guess it would be qemu-system-arm64) to actually be able to start >>> VMs on the Raspi. Probably more (see recommend and suggests lists of >>> the packages in question). Virt-Manager can also be used to control a >>> remote hypervisor. >> >>The virt-manager install does install many qemu packages. What I've been >>trying to run are images, not isos. I'm going to try the Ubuntu Server >>iso. > > Whether you're booting your system from a hard disk image or an ISO is > irrelevant to the fact that you need the right KVM/qemu userspace to > even start your VM. You can run a live system from an ISO without having > a virtual hard disk configure and you can of course boot an installed > system from a virtual hard disk. fwiw, I was able to create a VM on the Pi using the Ubuntu amr64 iso. It's not very useful other than a proof of concept but I didn't want a full fat iso. It came up, went through the usual installation and rebooted successfully. I can stop the VM from virt-manager, start it again, and it reboots. I can then log in normally as the user I created during installation. Looking at /boot it does have an efi subdirectory. It's been fun but it's time to get back to my regularly scheduled programming. There are a few things I may research at a later data. With Raspberry Pi OS (Trixie) lsmod doesn't show kvm although the virt-manager install and functionality works the same as on x64. The other probably gets into NAT and isn't something I want to deal with. The virtual NAT works as far as accessing the outside world. However all my boxes use wireless connections and I don't think the bridging schemes work when the host's connection is wireless. It was fine playing with Leap but when I brought up Ubuntu Server the question crossed my mind 'exactly how am I going to serve anything but the host?'