Questions tagged [qemu]
QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization.
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How to pass through USB device to guest VM? What are “hostaddr”, “hostport” etc?
I have the following on the host machine
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-...
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Booting Centos 7 from dvd under qemu with uefi firmware on a mac
So, I'm in the process of trying to make what google calls a shielded image, which basically you provide the keys for the uefi boot process, and sign them image. Part one is building an image that ...
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How to expose QEMU machine as separate NIC in my LAN?
In Oracle VirtualBox I can configure my virtual machine so that it is exposed as separate machine on the same LAN as the host and it become the same DHCP server client as everything in my LAN. Also I ...
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Enabling mtdoops on QEMU running ARM64
I am using 5.8 upstream linux kernel and running it on virt machine of QEMU. The dts shows that this machine already has a flash memory :
flash@0 {
bank-width = <0x4>;
reg = <...
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Error using virtio-fs and qemu: “Failed to read msg header. Read 0 instead of 12. Original request 1.”
I'm trying to use virtio-fs to mount a folder on the host in the guest, but running into an issue.
On the host I have qemu 1:5.0-5ubuntu6.
virtiofsd command and output:
/usr/lib/qemu/virtiofsd -f -d -...
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QEMU Guest IO Errors with Raw Image Once a Week
I am seeing a strange issue with virtual machines running on my server where once a week they will stall. Every Monday Morning PDT, the services running on the VMs will freeze up (for example, nginx, ...
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How to boot Raspberry Pi IMG file on QEMU?
I have an IMG file, which is Raspberry Pi image. Can I boot it in Qemu on windows or linux? I am confused by examples, which say I need not only IMG file, but also a "kernel" file. Can I ...
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evdev passthrough of mouse button 4 and 5
I have a Windows 10 VM setup with KVM (qemu). I am passing through my mouse and keyboard input.
I looked up the device under /dev/input/by-id/ and added them to the XML:
<input type="mouse&...
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Configuring networking with QEMU for OpenBSD 6.7 guest on Debian Buster host
I have a host machine running Debian 10 and am using QEMU to run an OpenBSD 6.7 guest (amd64). My current invocation of QEMU is as follows:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -drive if=virtio,file=my_image....
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Can I sniff packets on a host interface macvtap through a guest OS on QEMU/KVM?
I have a RHEL server (host) with 4 VMs. One of those VMs is Windows 10 with Wireshark. I want to use Wireshark to sniff packets going over one of the server's ethernet ports, lets call it enp2s0f2.
In ...
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How to pass through iphone to mac osx kvm
I am attempting to USB passthrough my iPhone to a Mac OSX KVM guest using virt-manager. I have usbmuxd disabled. I attempt to usb-redirect, and it seems that the iPhone disconnects/reconnects. I find ...
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xen and the support for spice GL
To make a long story short,I tried to pass through my two kinect 2 devices from ubuntu 20.04 to a two qemu / kvm virtual machines,where on the first one I have also passed through my RTX 2080 ti and ...
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how to get a more stable version of the qemu driver for the usb 3 controller
I'm trying to connect two kinects 2 to a two different qemu-kvm virtual machines. On the first one VM I have passed the IGD video card from ubuntu to windows 10,following this tutorial :
https://blog....
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qme convert 1.7 GB raw file to 192 KB(!) vmdk
I want to convert a raw file, wich was created with dd from the sda-data, to a .vmdk file to use it in ESXi. In short, I want to virtualize an old Suse 10.3 system as a VM.
On the Suse 10.3 system I ...
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Why uboot x86_64 can not boot alpine vmlinuz-virt, reset after boot
qemu-x86_64 uboot.rom with Alpine's virt
get vmlinux
wget https://mirrors.aliyun.com/alpine/v3.12/releases/x86_64/netboot/{vmlinuz,initramfs}-virt
now boot qemu
qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -smp 2 -...
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Same vs different host-guest architecture virtual machines performance
I have a plan to run multiple guests inside an x86_64 host to provide various small, simple services. The guest OS of choice is OpenWrt, which is lightweight but still get the job done. OpenWrt ...
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How to pass through both the graphic cards that I have on two different virtual machines and one only PC
I need some help to achieve my goal. What I want to do is to create two different qemu-kvm virtual machines on Ubuntu 20.04 assigning to each of them some of the resources of one only PC. I want to ...
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Why is .qcow2 image larger (+1920000 bytes) after resising the image via `qemu-img resize --shrink`?
I created 20 GiB .qcow2 image for my virtual machine. Next I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on it. The system uses ~8 GiB, so I decided to shrink the image to 10 GiB using the following command:
# qemu-img ...
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Add internet to bridge with NAT [duplicate]
My setup is several VM's, with a local subnet (192.168.10.0/24)
Host machine is 192.168.10.1 (br1) (or 10.30.0.7 interface with inet) it runs a DHCP server to assign my VM's their IP's.
I don't want ...
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Qemu SPARC boot panic on Solaris
I want to boot Solaris8 SPARC version by Qemu.
$ qemu-system-sparc64 -boot d -cdrom SOL_8_204_SPARC.iso -net nic -net user -m 2048
But it shows this error:
OpenBIOS for Sparc64
Configuration device ...
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qemu cannot boot from usb device use the usb-host option
When I boot like this:
sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4G -enable-kvm -cpu host -vga qxl -bios /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd -boot menu=on -usb -device usb-host,vendorid=0x078a,productid=0x4761
It failed. When ...
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Why does my USB device disapear when I pass it to a qemu virtual machine?
I have a realtek wireless dongle that I want to pass to a qemu virtual machine. When I start the VM, the usb device shows up on both the host and in the guest as expected (shows up in lsusb, under /...
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qemu issue on Chromebook
I'm running Debian 10 on a Chromebook and I am trying to install and run different OS's on it. So I'm trying to use qemu.
When I enter
apt-get install qemu
I don't think it installed perfectly ...
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What's the purpose of kvm, libvirt and libvirt-qemu groups in linux
I wanted to play a little bit with KVM on my Debian, and I installed the needed tools. The three groups showed up in the /etc/group file: kvm , libvirt and libvirt-qemu . What's the purpose of each of ...
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Cannot get USB passthrough working with QEMU MacOS (Arch Linux host)
I'm using this repo to run MacOS High Sierra on my Arch Linux. All is fine, however cannot seem to get USB passthrough working for my Lego NXT (current Lego Mindstorms software doesn't support NXT 2....
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Configure static routing for the virbr0 using local interface as next hop
Having the following topology:
hostA(virbr0: 192.168.122.1) -- TAP interface -- (eth0: 192.168.122.85) gw (eth1: 192.168.3.51) --- (LAN: 192.168.3.0/24)
gw : QEMU VM Guest, that is acting as a gateway ...
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guestfish write file to disk image, is it have default domain?
I am about to run android Oreo (8.1) on a Debian host. I am trying to insert (upload) a picture to qcow2 sd-card image, later will be use by QEMU. I know the easiest solution will be utilizing google ...
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Is there a way to track the volume of a disk traffic from/to a file
I'm running a VM (qemu) that has its virtual disk on my hard drive. It works pretty slow so I'm thinking of moving that virtual disk to SSD. The only thing I am concerned about is whether it would be ...
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Booting Qemu KVM with encrypted LVM
My organisation is setting up Debian Buster host with Debian buster vms running in a quemu KVM environment. We are also planning on setting up the VMs using an encrypted partition. Just wondering if ...
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virbr0 package not installed - qemu/kvm
I am trying to test a custom kernel configuration using qemu/kvm
when I do $ virsh --connect qemu:///system net-start default this is the output i get.
error: Failed to start network default
error: ...
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virtio vs e1000 vs rtl8139: what's the difference?
When creating a virtual machine on Ubuntu, I have a choice between three device models for the virtual network interface: virtio, e1000 and rtl8139.
What is the difference between the three? In other ...
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iotune qemu/KVM total_iops total_bytes limits
I have created some qemu/KVM virtual machines on SSDs.
The host has ~6 SSDs. 1 is being used for the OS, and each of the other SSDs has two VM guests.
I'm using iotune to limit the capabilities of ...
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How can I add more than four disk images to qemu?
Qemu fails when I try to add more than 4 disk images using -drive file=...,index={0..3},media=disk,format=raw. The error I get for each additional drive is similar to the following:
qemu-system: -...
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Virsh console hangs to connect an Xubunto VM
I installed Xubuntu with GUI on KVM using virt-install command, the VM is running but when trying to connect to the VM using virsh console command it gets stuck on :
[root@hyv ~]# virsh console ...
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Boot iso in qemu-kvm virt-manager
Can an iso boot in qemu-kvm / virt-manager? Have bootable usb stick. The iso will make any usb stick bootable the same way. Can not boot iso in kvm-qemu / virt-manager.
In virt-manager the iso ...
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qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped
I have problems with chroot. I have a host machine which is amd64 and I want to work using qemu on aarch64 and I tried using this script:
#!/bin/bash
echo ">>>"
echo ">>&...
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Is it okay to run off a writable 9pfs share when cache=loose?
I'm trying to run a virtual machine off of a writable 9p root filesystem. When the default caching mode is used, apt and some other tools fail; likely due to limitations with 9pfs itself. The error ...
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KVM, is it possible to change the network configuration?
I'm having some trouble with a QEMU/KVM virtual machine on my local network.
I can connect to it from the LAN but not WLAN, despite the fact that these networks should forward to each other. This ...
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Run QEMU with graphical output from Tty
I found out that you can run MacOS from Linux with QEMU and that worked already with my main Linux install but I want a second install that only has Tty "running" in the background (so I can ...
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Dependency issues in the installation of Qemu
I would like to install QEMU in my virtual machine Debian 10. But I get the following errors. How can I fix them?
root@debian:~# apt-get install qemu-system-arm
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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How to create snapshot with UEFI firmware on virt-manager?
I am using qemu v2.11.1 and libvirt 4.0.0 - both are latest stable for Ubuntu 18.04. The guest is Windows 10 running on Tianocore UEFI firmware. When I tried to take a snapshot on virt-manager, it ...
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Error in installing the Qemu package
I would like to install Qemu in my Virtual machine Debian 9, but I unable to do it. It would be helpful if someone can solve this issue. The vdi file for Debian 9 is provided by my company.
root@...
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Shared folder between QEMU Windows guest and Linux host with virtio-fs
In QEMU 5.0 and kernel 5.4. Virtio-FS(D) was introduced for better access to shared folder on Linux host.
It seems the guest access the folder using FUSE-a-like technology.
I found a guide for Linux ...
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Debian KVM guest unbootable after mkinitramfs - mounting /dev/vda1 on /root failed
07/07/20 Edited: added info regarding problem scope
25/06/20 Edited: added some additional diag information
I have an issue where a Debian KVM guest built using virt-resize will work flawlessly up ...
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Set UUID when generating a VMDK image from a raw image using qemu-img
It is possible to convert a raw image to a VMDK image with qemu-img like this:
qemu-img convert -O vmdk "$_raw" "$_vmdk"
I know it is possible to set UUID of the generated VMDK ...
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KVM/QEMU hosts best-practice distro selection (and package)
If I want to run a modern production virtualizer I would expect to turn to RHEL/CentOS as RHEL is the main maintainer for most of the virtualizer "components".
But the newest stable version ...
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Run windows driver for usb writing pad without vt-x
I want to use an old usb writing pad, which is a hiddev.
My laptop's cpu (intel core 2 duo T5250) doesn't have vt-x.
Can virt-manager or wine run the software/driver for windows?
Can I use 32 bit ...
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qemu/KVM/libvirt usermode networking: VM as a non-root user, what do I need for root-less networking?
I have run several VMs in KVM/qemu with libvirt, and somehow most of the time networking works.
Now, networking has stopped working when VMs are run as a non-root user. I have found little helpful ...
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Configuring screen in QNX, drm-intel crashes
I'm building QNX OS (BSP 7.0 x86_64) and I have a working image. I'm running it over a qemu emulated enviroment.
Qemu virtual machine runs in a Windows host and is invoked as follows:
./qemu-system-...
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how to virtualize an oracle linux 8 for arm
I want to try Oracle Linux 8 for arm on a virtual machine before running it on my raspberry pi 4 B.
from my research I found it's not possible to do it on a windows 10 for some reason
even using ...
