Last year, I blogged about my first experiences with KVM and Virtual Machine Manager. Then, I stopped using KVM because I’ve always found VirtualBox easier for my experiments. In particular, with VirtualBox, it is trivial to store virtual machines on an external drive (I mean, a fast external SD, of course): you specify to use […]
After playing with VirtualBox (see my posts), I’ve decided to try also KVM (based on QEMU) and Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager). The installation is straightforward. In Ubuntu systems:
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sudo apt install virt-manager bridge-utils |
In Arch-based systems:
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sudo pacman -S virt-manager qemu edk2-ovmf |
Then, you need to add your user to the corresponding group:
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sudo adduser ${USER} libvirt sudo adduser ${USER} libvirt-qemu |
Reboot, and you’re good to go. In this post, I’m […]