https://www.bencode.io/tags/kvm/ Recent content in Kvm on Benny Simmonds Hugo -- 0.149.1 en-us Sat, 31 Oct 2020 20:56:25 +0000 https://www.bencode.io/posts/kvm/ Sat, 31 Oct 2020 20:56:23 +0000 https://www.bencode.io/posts/kvm/ <p>The Kernel Virtual Machine is a hypervisor for Linux on hardware with virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It is deployed as a loadable kernel modules, <code>kvm.ko</code>, and either <code>kvm-intel.ko</code> or <code>kvm-amd.ko</code>.</p> <p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/KVM">KVM Debian Wiki</a> rocks, and provides details on the basics including a great performance tuning section.</p> <ul> <li><a href="#install">Install</a></li> <li><a href="#administration-tasks">Administration tasks</a> <ul> <li><a href="#user-specific-vs-system-wide-vms">User specific vs system wide VMs</a></li> <li><a href="#list-vms">List VMs</a></li> <li><a href="#start-vm">Start VM</a></li> <li><a href="#shutdown-vm">Shutdown VM</a></li> <li><a href="#murder-hung-vm">Murder (hung) VM</a></li> <li><a href="#autostart-default-nated-bridged-network">Autostart default NATed bridged network</a></li> <li><a href="#what-if-the-default-network-interface-is-not-listed">What if the <code>default</code> network interface is not listed</a></li> <li><a href="#how-to-extend--increase-a-partition">How to extend / increase a partition</a></li> <li><a href="#use-network-iso-source-for-new-vms">Use network ISO source for new VMs</a></li> <li><a href="#windows-vm-disk-driver">Windows VM disk driver</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h1 id="install">Install</h1> <p>Easy instructions to get QEMU/KVM and virt-manager up and running on Arch.</p>