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Re: MX To The Rescue (Again)

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: MX To The Rescue (Again)
Date 2026-05-05 18:22 +0000
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On Tue, 5 May 2026 01:35:27 -0400, c186282 wrote:

> Next, can I make a KVM machine on my other Trixie box ? VirtualBox isn't
> in the repos and getting the Trixie version from Oracle does NOT work,
> all kinds of bitching about unprovided/uninstalled dkms shit. My goal is
> an OpenSUSE-Leap VM for fun and experiments.

I can't address Trixie on x64 but with most distros 'apt install virt-
manager' installs all the dependencies including QEMU. Many sites give you 
a laundry list of things to install but I haven't found that to be 
necessary.

I've seen it called different things in the menu but it's usually 'Virtual 
Machine Manager' in the System tools. At least that's what it is on the 
Raspberry Pi Trixie based OS. 

'lsmod | grep kvm'  should show either kvm_amd or kvn_intel. Most distros 
load the module by default or you can use modprobe. Really old processors 
don't have the necessary instructions to support kvm but my LM is on a 
2011 netbook and has them.

lsmod on the Pi doesn't show kvm but I do have a Ubuntu VM on it for 
kicks. It's a tty session but it does run.

You're experience echos mine on LM. I could install VB, unload the kvm 
module, and start the manager but actually trying to spin up a VM threw 
the dkms errors.  kvm/QEMU works fine.

As far as Leap 16, I first spun up the GNOME version. It's plain vanilla 
GNOME and sucks. Rather than try to civilize it I switched to KDE.

I think that was the iso that pointed out another problem. I had an old 
thumbdrive formatted with vfat. The iso was bigger than 4 GB so I had to 
reformat it to exfat.

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MX To The Rescue (Again) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-05-05 01:35 -0400
  Re: MX To The Rescue (Again) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-05 18:22 +0000
    Re: MX To The Rescue (Again) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-05-06 00:42 -0400
      Re: MX To The Rescue (Again) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-06 06:35 +0000
        Re: MX To The Rescue (Again) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-05-06 10:55 -0400
          Re: MX To The Rescue (Again) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-06 17:47 +0100
            Re: MX To The Rescue (Again) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-06 19:22 +0000

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