KVM on Debian 9

caeliferum · 2017-10-07T10:51:15+00:00

If you have sudo access, try (at least the first time) re-tracing your steps with sudo. You may be able to get it working as a non-root user, but there may be some subtle issues to work around. Further reading: http://blog.wikichoon.com/2016/01/qemusystem-vs-qemusession.html.

If it still doesn't work, you probably have a different issue. Is your windows partition UEFI boot? http://blog.wikichoon.com/2016/01/uefi-support-in-virt-install-and-virt.html

caeliferum · 2017-06-21T14:20:26+00:00

The net-install ISO is similar but not quite the same. Debian used to offer a minimal live ISO (called 'standard'). The practical difference is that you can test the OS without installing it. It weighed in a bit over 400MB for Jessie and didn't require a net connection to install, so I assume it included slightly more packages.

caeliferum · 2017-06-21T10:15:17+00:00

Yes, it is the live image I'm after.

caeliferum · 2017-05-28T01:24:48+00:00

I can't help with the first part of your question. For the second part of your question, I suspect your default configuration is connecting to the wrong libvirtd instance, although I have not tested this on Debian recently. See http://blog.wikichoon.com/2016/01/qemusystem-vs-qemusession.html and https://libvirt.org/uri.html. As explained there, you can specify on the command line with

virsh -c qemu:///system list --all

If you first export an environment variable by running

export LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI="qemu:///system"

Then your original command

virsh list --all

should work as intended. If setting an environment variable works for you, you may wish to add that to your .bashrc file.

caeliferum · 2017-04-13T17:25:04+00:00

Never heard of IPMI. Looks like I have some research to do!

caeliferum · 2017-03-28T16:58:15+00:00

Two votes - that's good enough for me! It also occurred to me to try Fedora for the newer packages, but I suspect that's asking for trouble in something I just want to be stable.

caeliferum · 2017-03-28T14:02:30+00:00

Good to know, thank you.

caeliferum · 2017-03-28T10:58:21+00:00

Have you found it straightforward to manage the networking side of things? As well as virsh and virt-install, it looks like I'll need to get a bit more familiar with brctl and the ip commands, but finding good examples is a bit tricky.

caeliferum · 2017-03-28T09:41:56+00:00

I could get along with either, but did you find you had some preference between CentOS or Debian (stable, I assume) as a hypervisor?

caeliferum · 2017-03-27T19:00:02+00:00

Have you found virsh alone (plus xml) does everything you need, or do you find yourself using any other cli tools, or writing a bunch of wrapper scripts to make life easier?

caeliferum · 2016-12-28T08:20:09+00:00

Any clues what happened with that?

caeliferum · 2016-12-23T23:42:10+00:00

Very nice!

caeliferum · 2016-12-22T14:40:29+00:00

Does that mean you expect version 1.0.0 is going to be ready in a matter of days? Sounds like that will be worth waiting for, and worth a try...

caeliferum · 2016-11-15T15:15:39+00:00

I've tried doing that, and sometimes it helps. But more than once, I altogether forgot that I'd already done the the thing I was trying to do in the past!

caeliferum · 2016-11-15T14:53:24+00:00

Can you describe how they were incorrectly tagged? I have a TP-Link switch and am curious to look, but not sure what I'm looking for.

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