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Re: kvm/qemu

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On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. <roy@rtellason.com> wrote:
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> 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 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?  I'm not averse to other tools,  like apt,  etc. if that's preferable...
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> A pointer to any documentation on these so I can get a good idea of how to set it up would also be helpful.

QEMU/KVM/libvirt is my preferred virtualization software nowadays. In
the past I used VMware on OS X, and VirtuaBox just about everywhere
else. But I got tired of VirtualBox breaking with each kernel upgrade,
and waiting for Oracle to fix it.

QEMU/KVM drivers are maintained by the kernel team, so they always
work. The drivers are signed by the kernel, so you don't need to jump
through hoops when using Secure Boot.

You can find documentation at libvirt, <https://wiki.libvirt.org/>.

The one downside (to me) was networking. It can be complicated to
setup. I like my VM guests to get an IP address from my DHCP server,
and I like to SSH into my VM guests. You need to setup a bridge for
that, and that takes extra work for QEMU/KVM. And it is not documented
well. In contrast, it "just works" under VMware and VirtualBox.

If you want the bridge, then see "Setting bridge for VMs IP assignment
by router's DHCP server,"
<https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/users@lists.libvirt.org/thread/Q2BEGIE2SGSQKGTKOW57LVWT334MCALK/>.

Jeff

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kvm/qemu "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2025-01-07 21:20 +0100
  Re: kvm/qemu Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2025-01-07 21:30 +0100
  Virt manager and dependencies to install kvm/quemu [WAS Re: kvm/qemu] "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2025-01-07 21:30 +0100
  Re: kvm/qemu George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2025-01-07 21:50 +0100
    Re: kvm/qemu Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch> - 2025-01-07 22:40 +0100
    Re: kvm/qemu "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2025-01-08 03:30 +0100
  Re: kvm/qemu Frank Guthausen <fg.debian@shimps.de> - 2025-01-07 21:50 +0100
  Re: kvm/qemu Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch> - 2025-01-07 22:40 +0100
  Re: kvm/qemu jman <debian-user@city17.xyz> - 2025-01-07 22:50 +0100
  Re: kvm/qemu gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2025-01-08 00:50 +0100
    Re: kvm/qemu debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2025-01-08 13:00 +0100
    Re: kvm/qemu Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch> - 2025-01-08 21:30 +0100
    Re: kvm/qemu Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2025-01-18 08:20 +0100
      Re: kvm/qemu George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2025-01-18 09:00 +0100

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