Questions tagged [virt-manager]
Questions regarding virt-manager, a GUI tool that allows the user to interact with KVM.
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What are the different versions available as Ubuntu cloud-images?...General Guide for Ubuntu Cloud Image use in Virt-manager 2021
I'm soooo thrilled to finally find prebuilt Ubuntu images. I was using osboxes, but the file size when converting is 500GBs and tedious to compact. Fresh installs are tedious, especially when 90% of ...
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Is it a good thing to run virt-manager as sudo?
I just installed qemu-kvm and virt-manager. But when i run virt-manager by clicking the icon it is not connecting to kvm. But when i run $ sudo virt-manager KVM connects.
i've been told that running ...
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Setting up a bridge for host and vm
I'm having quite a lot of problems setting up a network bridge for both my host and my vm to use.
The host (os of the server) is Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS. The VM (using KVM and virt-manager) is TrueNAS Core ...
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How to share a folder between KVM host and guest using virt-manager?
For some time now, I've been using virt-manager to manage my virtual machines. When I want to copy a file from the host to the vm, I have been using scp to copy via ssh over the network. This is kind ...
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How to use OpenGL/3D acceleration in virt-manager with ubuntu?
Currently on Ubuntu 20.04 both as host and guest, I followed http://ryan.himmelwright.net/post/virtio-3d-vms/ and activated 3D acceleration on video, and OpenGL on dsplay, but on VM launch I get
SPICE ...
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virt-manager launcher action to directly start and open a specific VM
I use virt-manager for my Qemu/KVM virtual machines. Booting a VM currently means launching virt-manager, selecting a VM to open it in the VM viewer and then finally turning the VM on.
I would like ...
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How to do virtual networking (all types) in virt-manager?
Surprisingly, there is no documentation on the official site http://virt-manager.org/
I specifically need documentation on bridged / host-only / NAT virtual networking via the GUI.
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QEMU/KVM/Virt-Manager: Passthrough of USB Webcam to Windows 7 Enterprise creates "NEC USB HUB"
I am trying to passthrough my USB Webcam into my Windows 7 Enterprise x86-64 QEMU/KVM guest, which is managed by virt-manager.
First I lookup the bus/device ID:
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 046d:...
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Using Webcam and Microphone in Virt-Manager
I have a Kubuntu 20.04.1 LTS as my Host OS, and I have a Fedora installed as guest using Virt-Manager.
Is it possible to use the built-in Webcam and Microphone of my laptop in the Guest-OS using Virt-...
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Is it possible to run qemu-system-x86_64 virtual machine from raw disk image located on external flash drive?
For some project I need to have QEMU/KVM virtual machine with raw disk image.
So I have created this raw disk image as simple as
dd if=/dev/zero of=~/disk.img bs=1M count=3092
and got 3 Gb of space ...
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How to enable 3D acceleration on Windows VM in virtual machine manager
I have tried setting Type to Spice server and opengl on in display Spice and in Video Virtio setting the model to Virtio and 3D acceleration on, but that made the Windows VM unusable because of the ...
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Low internet speed when adding bridge interface
I added a bridge interface using virt-manager.
/etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_fd 0
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virt-manager can't connect to xen
When I try to connect to my XEN domain with virtmanager on Ubuntu 14.04 I just get the following error:
Unable to connect to libvirt.
internal error: libxenlight state driver is not active
Verify ...
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How to use external SSD to store files for VM?
I'm using an external SSD portioned as exfat to store files for my vm. I'm using the tool virt manager to manage this.
While trying to store the vm on SSD I got this message: "The emulator may ...