Libvirt package?

[grelos]

Hello,

I would like to move from Virtualbox to KVM/QEMU, so I need to install libvirt package.
I cannot find it in either the Stable Repo or the Test Repo.

Should I install it with apt-get?
Thank you

[fehlix]

I would like to move from Virtualbox to KVM/QEMU, so I need to install libvirt package.
I cannot find it in either the Stable Repo or the Test Repo.

Just install like this:

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sudo apt-get  install qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system

perhaps add this GUI:

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sudo apt-get  install virt-manager 

Here a little starter-script, I'm using for running MX17 Linux ISO's within KVM/QEmu,
just as a template ... which can be used to boot KVM/Qemu with
sata-emulated drives (/dev/sda1) and paravirtual disk drives (/dev/vda1)
including shared folder.

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#-----------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
# fehlix:  KVM/Qemu start
# with sata-emulated drives (/dev/sda1) and paravirtual disk drives
# including shared folder
# qemu-starter.sh
set -x

ISO=/ISO/MX-Linux/MX-17.1/September/MX-17.1_September_x64.iso
IMG=/QEMU/MX-17.1_September_x64.img
DIR=/QEMU/SharedFolder

NAME=$( basename $IMG .img )
# ------------------------------------
# mount shared folder in guest:
# mkdir /tmp/shared_folder 
# mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L,posixacl,cache=mmap shared_folder /tmp/shared_folder 
# ------------------------------------

BOOT_ORDER="cd"  # boot from IMG
BOOT_ORDER="dc"  # boot from ISO

VIRT="if=virtio"    # boot with para-virtual  drives: /dev/vda
VIRT="media=disk"   # boot with sata-emulated drives: /dev/sda

qemu-system-x86_64 \
	-name ${NAME} \
	-cpu host \
	-enable-kvm \
	-m 4048 \
	-smp 4 \
	-rtc base=utc \
	-netdev user,id=vmnic \
	-device virtio-net,netdev=vmnic \
	-virtfs local,id=shared_folder_dev_0,path=${DIR},security_model=none,mount_tag=shared_folder \
	-drive file=$IMG,index=0,${VIRT} \
	-cdrom $ISO \
	-boot order=${BOOT_ORDER} 

exit

[grelos]

Thank you. I am going to try later.
Can you copy virtual disk drive the same way of Virtualbox?

[fehlix]

Thank you. I am going to try later.
Can you copy virtual disk drive the same way of Virtualbox?

Well, the IMG-drive is a file which you can copy.
I have adjusted the creation if not exist in this starter example.

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#-----------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
# fehlix:  KVM/Qemu start
# with sata-emulated drives (/dev/sda1) and paravirtual disk drives
# including shared folder
# qemu-starter.sh
set -x

ISO=/ISO/MX-Linux/MX-17.1/September/MX-17.1_September_x64.iso
IMG=/QEMU/MX-17.1_September_x64.img
DIR=/QEMU/SharedFolder

# create QEMU-IMG if not erxists
SIZ=32G
[ -f $IMG ] || qemu-img create -f qcow2 ${IMG} ${SIZ}

NAME=$( basename $IMG .img )
# ------------------------------------
# mount shared folder in guest:
# mkdir /tmp/shared_folder 
# mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L,posixacl,cache=mmap shared_folder /tmp/shared_folder 
# ------------------------------------

BOOT_ORDER="cd"  # boot from IMG
BOOT_ORDER="dc"  # boot from ISO

VIRT="if=virtio"    # boot with para-virtual  drives: /dev/vda
VIRT="media=disk"   # boot with sata-emulated drives: /dev/sda

qemu-system-x86_64 \
	-name ${NAME} \
	-cpu host \
	-enable-kvm \
	-m 4048 \
	-smp 4 \
	-rtc base=utc \
	-netdev user,id=vmnic \
	-device virtio-net,netdev=vmnic \
	-virtfs local,id=shared_folder_dev_0,path=${DIR},security_model=none,mount_tag=shared_folder \
	-drive file=$IMG,index=0,${VIRT} \
	-cdrom $ISO \
	-boot order=${BOOT_ORDER} 
exit

[grelos]

I am already running into a bunch of problems, basically all due to using external HDDs either for storage and for the installation ISO. VMM claims that it cannot access them. Last problem is something about Virtual Manager default firewall.
Well, KVM is nice but now I have no time to fix this. I am sticking to Virtualbox then.

[bobbee]

Thank you @fehlix, I was missing one or two of those dependencies.
The script is interesting too. I do mine from the gui, but might be handy sometime.
I install virt-manager with -y --install-suggests. That puts a bunch of stuff on. I also needed etables and dns-masq and I think some other stuff
As you have in your script, the mx linux install doesn't like the default virtual drive, had to change that, I also used sata.
It took a bit to install it on mint too when I had that on my machine before I switched to mx linux.

[Redd56]

Im sittin on 19.2 and even with all this installed its still giving errors saying it wants libvirt
update: was able to find spicegtk in the package installer. all is well now jsut for other things