Qemu and KVM tutorial

KVM
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Maybe I’m missing it but does anyone have a good tutorial for the complete installation of the qemu KVM virtual manager stack? I am having a problem with libvirtd or libvirt. I hope to see a good tutorial. Thank you.

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How to install and set up QEMU, KVM, and virt-manager will depend heavily on what distro you’re using. Ubuntu- and Debian-based distros allow you to install it with a simple sudo apt install virt-manager, then log out and log back in. openSUSE Tumbleweed lets you install it with YaST, though I seem to remember it required some extra configuration before it actually worked right. Not sure how to do it on other distros.

Once you have it working, the instructions for installing Kicksecure can be found at Kicksecure for KVM with Xfce.

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Thank you, I should have mention distro, I just thought that went without mentioning. I have to learn to be more detailed again. sry. But this is what I used and it went well, I forget where I got it. Below is process.

I use the ISO to install. That was easy.

Installing Virt-manager-QEMU-KVM

  1. Update your system:
  • sudo apt update
  1. Install necessary packages:
  • sudo apt install virt-manager qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils

This will install:

virt-manager: A GUI to manage virtual machines.
qemu-kvm: The emulator and virtualization software.
libvirt-daemon-system and libvirt-clients: The service and client tools for managing KVM virtual machines.
bridge-utils: For networking support.
  1. Verify KVM support:
  • egrep -c ‘(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo
  1. Add your user to the libvirt group:
  • sudo usermod -aG libvirt $(whoami)
  1. Enable and start the libvirt service:
  • sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd
  1. Start Virt-Manager
  • virt-manager
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So it looks like you’re using something Debian-based, and you have virt-manager installed. I believe you’re having trouble getting Kicksecure to work within it though. Could you share the exact issues you’re encountering while attempting to follow the documentation? If you’re seeing any error messages, it would be very useful if we could see those too.

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I should have told you. sry. no, Its working fine, I just have a bit of CPU usuage for a few minutes at 50% and actually I don’t think it should, I have a Beelink SER6 max, 6900hx amd i believe 32GIG ddr5. Its not to shabby. But it works great just having a problem with Video resolution greyed out at 1200 x 800