KVM is the Kernel Virtual Machine, a virtualization hypervisor built into the Linux kernel.
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CPU usage of KVM
I have a linux host with 4 KVM linux guests. All the guest are pretty much idle, having a load of <0.1 inside the guest.
Now, if I do a top on the host, each KVM process is using something about ...
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SELinux interfering with host/guest file sharing using KVM
I'm running Fedora 17 with KVM and the virtual machine runs okay. I tried to follow this to get access to a file on the host system but SELinux prevents the VM from accessing any files other than ...
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Install grub on LV container for VM
I'm having difficult time installing grub in LVM LV container for a VM. This is the partition table:
# parted /dev/mgtvg/linux2os print
Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)
Disk /dev/dm-7: 129GB ...
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How to use a 64-bit CPU in KVM?
According to tests the Mac Mini 3,1 CPU is 64-bit (grep -q "^flags.*\blm\b" /proc/cpuinfo) and supports Intel virtualization extensions (grep -q "^flags.*\bvmx\b" /proc/cpuinfo). However, after ...
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How to report back system installation progress
I'd like to do some reporting from the system setup progress for virtualised (libvirt/kvm) Ubuntu servers. I expected some kind of such system to already exist out there, but couldn't find anything. ...
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Sharing an X server (session) across computers
I have 2 computers (both running linux) and I'm currently using synergy to use them. This is great, but now I'm wondering, is there any way (is it possible? being worked on? tried and failed? ...
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Disable SSH Tunnel with KVM VNC Server
Here at work we've set up a KVM server that hosts a couple guest machines. The KVM itself is headless and we remote into whenever needed, but we would like to be able to VNC into the guests. I have ...
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Should LVM partitions be used in virtual machine images?
Should LVM be used for the partitions when creating VM images (e.g., KVM images)? It seems like it adds complexity if you want to, say, mount a qcow2 image in the host if the image has LVM partitions. ...
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How to find the IP address of a KVM Virtual Machine, that I can SSH into it?
I have follow this guide (Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 11.10) to setup my KVM (Virtual Machines Software) on my Ubuntu 11.10 Server. However, I didn't setup my VM's IP address when creating the ...
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Installing centos and freebsd with serial console
I am trying to install Centos 5.7 and FreeBSD 8.2 on KVM with serial console access. This is what I used:
sudo virt-install -n freebsd -r 1024 --vcpus=2
--os-type unix --accelerate -v
--disk ...
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bridged networking with kvm
I'm trying to get a guest virtual machine connected to my network using bridging. I've come across a couple of resources online, but they seem to be out of date, deal with xen or Ubuntu or don't seem ...
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How do I send a shutdown event to a QEMU guest (OpenBSD)?
I'm using virtualisation solely to install OpenBSD onto the bare hardware, and during the installation, the redirection to the serial port didn't get configured, so, I ended up with the system ...
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kvm guest Network interface no Authenication
i have a kvm host based on ubuntu 10.04 host , and the guest is rhel 5.3 64-bit,
on the guest i tried to execute mii-tool eth0
SIOCGMIIREG on eth0 failed: Input/output error
SIOCGMIIREG on eth0 ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 kvm Virtual Machine guest network speed slow
i have the following situation, i have a kvm host ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit network host speed is perfectly run , as i am testing network speed using iperf , the speed between any network device and the ...
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Booting with UEFI in KVM [closed]
I would like to install Windows on my hard drive (which is GPT formatted) but I would like to be also able to run it virtually using KVM.
To clarify, the same Windows installation should be able to ...
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Host CPU does not scale frequency when KVM guest needs it
I have asked this question on serverfault, but it could also have been posted here. I will synchronise the answers if one is found.
Observation:
I have an HP server with an AMD dual core CPU (Turion ...
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Is it possible to install KVM On A VMWare virtual machine? If so, what are the steps?
I want to understand how to use KVM in CenTOS. At the moment, all I have is a VMWare ESX 5.x server to use. Is there a way to get KVM working on a system that is running on VMWare? Essentially, a ...
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Faster graphics in KVM guest
Is there any way to improve the graphics performance of a KVM guest?
I suspect that the question is too general, so I will give my setup and requirements.
My ultimate goal is to use an Ubuntu guest ...
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What is contained in these addresses?
I am working on MUlti-processor record-replay feature of a virtual machine.
I have a log of non-deterministic memory access done in the virtual machine by virtual CPUs.
A very high proportion of these ...
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How can I restore default window size in KVM/QEMU
In KVM/QEMU machine window size by default matches guest OS resolution. But if I resize windows (accidently) how to restore default size?
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How to install KVM on CentOS 6
I can't install kvm on CentOS.
I got these errors:
[root@localhost etc]# yum groupinstall kvm -y
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: ...
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How long could I work with stable release after it is no more supported?
I'm still working on Debian squeeze which will be supported for only about 1 more year (it is server with KVM).
How long is it possible to work on an old version of Debian (after Debian gets old) when ...
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Debian + KVM: Which version to use? Stable or “new”?
I have Debian 6.0.4 (Squeeze) x64. Nowadays I use KVM stable package from apt-get.
Could you recommend me using a compiled newest or newer version instead of using the old one KVM package from Debian ...
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KVM - Which Web Based management to use?
I would like to became an Expert of managing KVM on debian squeeze.
I still use virt-manager. Yes, it is easy and quiet safe and quick for me.
I tried a lot of web based management UI and non of ...
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How to backup KVM images? Is it possible to backup whole VM?
I need to backup all (9 VMs) my KVM VMs. I would like to backup them in the night for example once a week. For example VMware server and VMware server 2 used to have possibility to create live backups ...
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How to limit CPU performance for KVM VM?
imagine 1 Virtual machine with 2 shared cores on quad core CPU 2Ghz speed.
Is it possible to limit this Virtual Machine for 500Mhz of CPU power on both cores? Or to reserve 1Ghz on 1 core for this ...
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How to access a KVM virtual-machine?
I've created a KVM VM using virt-install. There is an image file in the directory /ssd/kvms.
How do I access the virtual machine and turn it on? Do I need to assign an IP address, and if so, how do I ...
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qemu - two clients (tap0 & tap1) via br0 can't ping eachother but server pings ok
I've got:
A host system running Ubuntu with KVM (functional)
Two clients, one Ubuntu and one Windows 7, nothing fancy.
I've also setup (see below) a bridge via br0 for the clients:
br0: ...
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Clipboard doesn't work in KVM.
I have a RHEL 6 Desktop with a windows KVM. How could I get the clipboard working, just as there is a solution in VirtualBox to share the clipboard between host and guest?
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Learning to Use Virtual Manager in opensuse 12.2
Ok just installed virt-manager, and then install opensuse 12.2, installed correctly, but when do zypper up had no network, then turn off the virtual machine and change the network card to a vlan in ...
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Installing Freebsd as guest OS on kvm without using VNC
I want to run Freebsd as a guest OS on kVM running on Ubuntu server 10.04. All howtos mention VNC as a necessity to start and finish the installation process. Can I install freebsd on kVM without ...
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GPGPU/CUDA in KVM or Xen
We would like to enable direct access to CUDA-enabled GPUs within either KVM or Xen (or Citrix Xenserver). Specifically, we want to use PCI passthrough to access an NVIDIA Tesla S2050 unit, which is ...
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How to setup KVM partitions?
I'm trying to install SolusVM/KVM on a server with one 500 GB HD and one 256 SSD. I am a complete beginner at Linux. SolusVM has a script on the site to download and install automatically, but how do ...
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Setup Cloudmin on Centos installed in LVM
I installed CentOS 6 with default LVM partition pattern. according to this pattern Can I use Cloudmin and store KVM Disks in LVM as Logical Volume? I think Cloudmin requires creating new logical ...
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What is the difference between virbr# and vnet#?
I am running KVM on RHEL6, and I have created several virtual machines in it. Issuing ifconfig command to the host system command line shows a list of virbr0, virbr1... and vnet0, vnet2... Are they ...
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How to get the cloned guest connected to the Internet?
I made a clone of a VM(running a version of Centos 6) on KVM, but the clone wouldn't connect to the Internet. Issuing ifconfig shows no interfaces but the lo. Interestingly, the original system can ...
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Why doesn't eth0 get an ip address when set up in a bridge?
I'm trying to understand how dhcp for IPv4 is used with bridging.
eth0 is configured to be in br0. This is working just fine but only br0 gets a dhcp lease, while eth0 doesn't. Both are configured ...
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can't start default network, is there a way to run dnsmasq for both local and kvm?
I can't start KVM since I use dnsmasq on my laptop as a DNS cache server,
So, I'm wondering if this can be merged to the server I'm running.
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Error when try to install KVM on CentOS
I am trying to install KVM from Installation doc.
When I run the command modprobe kvm-intel I get the error FATAL: Error inserting kvm_intel ...
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How to install kvm in Debian (Lenny) over powerpc
I am emulating powerpc using qemu-system-ppc on top of x86, and running debian-lenny-ppc with it. I want to install kvm inside that debian. I have learned that the kvm and qemu-kvm packages are not ...
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Very slow KVM in Ubuntu 12.04
I use Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit and KVM, my CPU is Core i5 3.3 GHz and I have 8 GB of DDR3 RAM. I run Windows 7 in KVM and it's extremely slow. My co-worker use Debian on the same PC configuration and can ...
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kvm doesn't load Windows 8
I'm launching kvm with the following parameter:
kvm -m 2g -smp ncores=2 -hda disk.img -cdrom win8.iso
My CPU has VT support and enabled,
EDIT
I seems to have limited emulate type:
pc ...
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Socksifying a qemu-kvm using tsocks
I'm trying to socksify a qemu-kvm using tsocks, but I have no success.
I don't know if qemu access directly the hardware, skipping the OS or something like that, but I wasn't able to do this feat.
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Is it possible to run KVM over a qemu emulated powerpc architecture
I understand that qemu uses binary translation to emulate machines, so irrespective of the underlying architecture, it can provide emulation.
And, KVM uses Hardware Virtualization technique to make ...
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How to compile kernel for KVM guest (without paravirtualization)?
So I have a KVM machine, where I run an Ubuntu 12.04 (server edition).
I want to compile a minimalistic kernel for the KVM guest, but I only found the howto for hosts, and guests with ...
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KVM network bridge and public static IP for both host and guests [closed]
I have a Debian Server with 4 public static addresses. There is a KVM guest (also Debian) installed and running. What I want is to give the guest an IP of the host, so that both machines have public ...
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Bridging ethernet interface
I have a server with 4 public IP's. I have it with this configuration and I want to bridge the interface eth0 for using it with KVM:
So, I have 3 IP's (A.B.C.144, A.B.C.145, A.B.C.146) and another ...
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Run if statement on remote machine
I'm trying to run a set of commands on a remote machine, that includes an if statement. I'm using this to shutdown a list of kvm instances. The first line should be fine, but could be prettier, rest ...
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How to know if a process is attached to a tap interface?
I sometimes come upon machine with tap interfaces (eg, when KVM is running). How can i know which process is attached to the tap interface ?
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Partitioning scheme for a virtual machine host
I am planning to use an Ubuntu Server 12.04 with KVM to create 2 virtual machines.
Reading some docs on the net, I have found that a good approach is to use LVM based VM, so my idea is to have:
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